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Het enorme verschil in behandeling van Israëlische- vs. Palestijnse gijzelaars: fake news en desinformatie >> Deel II

Posted on by Telmo Claro

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Gisteren berichtte ik over het verschil in behandeling wat betreft de Israëlische gijzelaars en ‘gevangen’ Palestijnen (lees: Palestijnse gijzelaars)*. Het gaat hierbij niet alleen om hoe de gijzelaars van beide kanten zijn behandeld, echter om nog even aan te geven hoe dat zit: wat betreft de Israëlische behandeling van gijzelaars, voornamelijk vrouwen en kinderen, is deze schunnig (tot en met martelingen aan toe waar de dood op volgt, ofwel gruwelijke moorden), terwijl de Hamasstrijders de gegijzelde en krijgsgevangen genomen Israëliërs uitermate netjes hebben behandeld en behandelen. Nee >> het gaat hier ook om hoe de reguliere westerse media hebben durven berichten en nog steeds berichten over deze ruil van gijzelaars.

Zoals ik gisteren al heb uitgelegd, houden de reguliere westerse media aan wat de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël aan berichten brengt over deze zaken, ofwel de zonder aanklacht en vorm van proces gegijzelde (‘gevangengehouden’) Palestijnen die in zogenaamde ‘administratieve detentie’ worden gehouden, worden weggezet als gevangenen en zelfs als terroristen…. Daarnaast worden ook de gevangengenomen Israëlische militairen weggezet als gegijzelden, terwijl die media zelf blijven spreken over de oorlog in de Gazastrook (en niet over de genocide die daar openlijk werd en zal worden uitgevoerd) en derhalve die militairen moeten aanmerken als krijgsgevangenen!!

Vóórdat de eerste gegijzelden werden vrijgelaten sprak het grootste deel van de reguliere westerse media over Palestijnse terroristen die Israël zou vrijlaten, in werkelijkheid ging het om vrouwen en kinderen die zijn vrijgelaten….. (vrouwen en kinderen die werden gegijzeld onder de belachelijke regels van ‘administratieve detentie’)

Op NPO Radio1 nieuws van afgelopen nacht om 4.00 u. meldde de nieuwslezer dat Israël vandaag 110 ‘Palestijnse gevangenen’ zou vrijlaten, waar deze aan toevoegde dat meerdere mediaorganen hebben bericht dat zich onder die ‘gevangenen’ 3 terroristen zouden bevinden…. Ofwel de staatszendgemachtigde NOS herhaalt meestal trouw wat de fascistisch, genocidale apartheidsstaat Israël deze staatsomroep voorkauwt, echter als er andere nieuwsmedia zijn die het gore lef hebben nog harder te liegen over wie zich tussen de zogenaamde gevangenen zou bevinden >> ‘terroristen’, heeft dezelfde NOS er geen probleem mee om deze smerige leugen te herhalen!! (ofwel hier is sprake van fake news [nepnieuws] en desinformatie, iets waarvan omroepen als de NOS de sociale media beschuldigen!!)

Daarbij zijn de zogenaamde terroristen niets anders dan verzetsstrijders, want vergeet niet dat de bevolking die krijgt te maken met een terreur-overheersing door een ander land in feite de plicht en het recht heeft zich te verzetten, zoals dit het geval was tijdens nazi-Duitse bezetting van ons land ten tijde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog (WOII)….. De nazi-Duitse bezetting heeft het verzet in ons land destijds ook weggezet als terreur (zoals de nazi’s dat ook deden over het verzet in andere door de nazi’s bezette landen).

Voorts was ik gisteren vergeten te melden dat afgelopen dinsdag in het radionieuws van 9.30 u. op Deutschlandfunk (radio) in het kader van de Auschwitz bevrijding en de herdenking van de Holocaust werd gemeld dat het antisemitisme in Duitsland steeds meer toeneemt. Niets mee mis zou je zo denken, ware het niet dat men in Duitsland vrij algemeen kritiek op Israël ziet als antisemitisme….. (alweer >> desinformatie!!) Niet voor niets ook dat men in hetzelfde nieuwsbericht wist te melden dat dit antisemitisme is toegenomen sinds ‘das Massaker’ van ‘terreurorganisatie Hamas’ op 7 oktober 2023…..

Al evenzo heb ik gisteren uitgelegd hoe zwaar er is gelogen over de gebeurtenissen op 7 oktober 2023 en wat er die dag werkelijk is gebeurd….. Zo heeft het Israëlische leger een groot deel van de Israëliërs zelf vermoord, alleen om te voorkomen dat ze als gijzelaars zouden kunnen worden gebruikt, dit volgens de zogenaamde Hannibal-richtlijn….. Twee vliegen in één klap, immers nu kon men Hamas beschuldigen verantwoordelijk te zijn voor alle doden op die dag in 2023, daar men in Israël dondersgoed beseft dat de reguliere westerse media de door hen gemaakte leugens zullen overnemen en uitdragen, hoeveel bewijzen er ook zijn dat de vork anders in de steel steekt, bewijzen als getuigenissen van Israëliërs die één en ander van dichtbij hebben meegemaakt…. Zoals een Israëlische vrouw die het bloedbad bij het muziekfestival wist te ontsnappen en vertelde dat Israëlische helikopters de auto’s van festivalgangers onder vuur nam, daar men aannam dat zich hierin ook Hamasleden bevonden die de eigenaars van die auto’s zouden hebben willen gijzelen….. Die auto’s zijn in een grote kuil gedumpt en begraven zodat men niet kon controleren wat er werkelijk gebeurde die dag…..

De Britse premier Starmer (van Labour), de schoft die Jeremy Corbyn z’n verkiezing tot premier heeft gestolen door hem en een aantal andere Labourleden te beschuldigen antisemitisch te zijn, werd volop gesteund door de reguliere media, staatsmedia (als de BBC) en zogenaamde deskundigen…. (fake news en desinformatie!!!) Terwijl Corbyn NB joodse medewerkers had en bevriend was met Hajo Meijer een overlevende van Auschwitz en medewerker van ‘Een Ander Joods Geluid!! (die joodse medewerkers van Corbyn werden ook door de niet-Joden Starmer en z’n misdadigers als antisemitisch weggezet, wat ze nog net niet durfden te zeggen over Hajo Meijer….). De werkelijke reden om Corbyn NB een partijgenoot van Starmer de verkiezingen te laten verliezen was het feit dat hij als te links werd bevonden, zo wilde hij onmiddellijk een eind maken aan het feit dar rond de 4 miljoen kinderen in GB dagelijks met honger naar school moeten…. Dezelfde Starmer heeft vorig jaar gesteld dat Israël het volste recht had om de bevolking van de Gazastrook uit te hongeren en water te ontzeggen, wat niets anders is dan een genocidale handeling en één van de ergste oorlogsmisdaden!!

Jonathan Cook kwam afgelopen dinsdag met een artikel waarin hij beschrijft dat de Israëlische generaal-majoor Basyuk (ook wel aangeduid als Basiuk) Londen heeft bezocht, samen met een kleine delegatie zionistische (ofwel >> fascistische) joodse politici. Deze Basyuk is een vreselijke oorlogsmisdadiger en één van de hoofverantwoordelijken voor het uitvoeren van de genocide in de Gazastrook…. Ofwel Starmer en z’n misdadigers hebben er geen moeite mee om mensen valselijk te beschuldigen antisemitisch te zijn, of de zwaarste oorlogsmisdaden als gerechtvaardigd neer te zetten, ja zelfs wapens (in de breedste zin van het woord) en munitie te leveren waarmee Israël die genocide heeft uitgevoerd en weer zal uitvoeren…. Daarnaast heeft het inhumane neoliberale kabinet van ploert Starmer er geen moeite mee om één van de hoofdverantwoordelijken voor de genocide op de Palestijnen toe te staan Londen te bezoeken…..

ONGELOFELIJK EN ONVERDRAAGLIJK!!!


Het volgende bericht met video komt van X, één van de redenen waarom men dit een rechts platform noemt. Maar uiteraard is Musk een fascistische ploert (er worden veel berichten over de genocide in de Gazastrook geplaatst, alsof dat antisemitisch is):

Pelham @Resist_05·

Jan 29

There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been decimated, 100% of the population displaced and 50% of the deaths children…

So let’s just call it for what it really is… this is a GENOCIDE..🇵🇸💔


Hier het artikel van Jonathan Cook, eerder gepubliceerd op Declassified UK, ik nam het over van Jonathans Substack site.


(als je de Engelse taal niet beheerst, zet dan de tekst om in Nederlands met behulp van Google translate dat je rechts bovenaan deze pagina ziet staan, klik eerst in het menu op ‘Engels’, waarna je weer kan klikken op die vertaalapp, daarna zie je bovenaan in het menu ‘Nederlands’ staan >> klik daarop en de hele tekst staat vervolgens in het Nederlands, de vertaling is van een redelijk goede kwaliteit.)


Israel’s ‘genocide general’ welcomed in London – and the media yawns

Why is it only Declassified seeking to hold to account General Basyuk, who oversaw Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, as he meets UK officials?


Jonathan Cook

January 28, 2025


[First published by Declassified UK]

There have been two stories deeply revealing – in starkly contrasting ways – of the West’s relationship to Israel’s industrialised, militarised slaughter of the people of Gaza over the past 15 months.

Last week, Declassified UK carried out one of the fundamental duties of journalism. Its reporter Alex Morris sought to hold accountable a war crimes suspect evading justice. And not just any suspect.

Morris doorstepped Major General Oded Basyuk as he led an Israeli military delegation through the streets of London in meetings with the Ministry of Defence and the Royal United Services Institute, a UK “security think-tank” with close ties to the British government.

Basyuk, sometimes spelt Basiuk, heads the Israeli military’s operations directorate, whose responsibilities have included the development of the military strategy that guided Israel’s brutal 15-month assault on Gaza.

The International Court of Justice ruled a year ago that a “plausible” case had been made that Israel was committing a genocide in Gaza. Israel has effectively been on trial ever since.

Meanwhile, the ICJ’s sister court, the International Criminal Court (ICC), has issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity – most notably for their policy of blocking aid and starving the entire population of 2.3 million Palestinians there.

Basyuk was one of the central figures helping to devise and direct these genocidal acts.

He was also pivotal in overseeing the Israeli military’s invasion and occupation of south Lebanon. Israeli forces have been similarly levelling entire communities there and slaughtering civilians.

In other words, Basyuk is one of the biggest cogs in Israel’s genocidal war machine.

If the ICC finds the nerve to take on the new Trump administration – which is almost certain to sanction court officials for charging Netanyahu and Gallant – Basyuk will be at the head of the queue for an arrest warrant.


Diplomatic immunity


Which leads to a number of conundrums.

Not least, why is a major war crimes suspect such as Basyuk freely wandering the streets of London in the midst of two genocide-related legal cases against Israel?

Given that the ICC can issue arrest warrants in secret, and at short notice, how is Basyuk so confident that he can visit the UK without legal repercussions?

Further, Britain’s universal jurisdiction laws mean serious crimes can be prosecuted in the UK wherever they occurred, and separately from the ICC. A private application for his arrest could have been issued while he was here.

The only plausible answer is that the government of Keir Starmer gave him a gold-plated assurance that he would not be arrested under any circumstances during his visit.

That is precisely what happened back in November when Israel’s now-outgoing military chief of staff, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, visited Britain to meet officials from the Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office.

Starmer’s government issued Halevi with diplomatic immunity – a so-called “special mission certificate” – that blocked any possibility of legal redress against him.

As a signatory to the Rome Statute, it should be noted, Britain is legally obliged to enforce an arrest warrant issued by the ICC, though it has equivocated about whether in practice it would carry out an arrest of either Netanyahu or Gallant, if put to the test.

Criminal complicity


There are other puzzling questions that need answers.

In the midst of legal cases at the world’s two highest courts against the Israeli military for crimes against humanity, why would the Ministry of Defence think that Basyuk – one of Israel’s highest ranking commanders – was a suitable person to be meeting with and talking to?

What knowledge does Basyuk currently have to share with our own military chain of command that makes it so important to meet with him face to face in London, especially when his visit could potentially drag Starmer’s government into a legal showdown with the ICC or expose a shameful evasion of its legal obligations?

Basyuk’s visit serves as a reminder that the MoD is profoundly implicated in the Gaza genocide – as is Starmer himself.

It has approved the continuing sale of more than 90 per cent of British weapons and components to Israel, including those that have kept Israel’s fleet of F-35s in the air so that they can carpet bomb Gaza.

Additionally, the MoD is believed to have helped ship US and German munitions to Israel through air bases in the UK and from an RAF base in Cyprus, Akrotiri, without which the mass slaughter of Gaza’s children would not have been possible.

As Declassified revealed in October, the UK has been allowing regular secret flights of US special forces from Akrotiri to Israel.

And the MoD has been conducting surveillance flights over Gaza, almost certainly with the purpose of supplying intelligence to Israel to help it select targets as it has destroyed most residential properties, schools, universities, libraries, mosques, churches and bakeries.

A strong suspicion must be that the MoD invited Basyuk not only to deepen ties between the two militaries but to prepare for a renewed British role in the genocide should Israel return to the bombardment of Gaza after the first stage of the ceasefire is completed, as Netanyahu has threatened.



Media silence


And then there are questions for the British media.

How is it possible that Basyuk, a major war crimes suspect, is strolling around London at the head of an official Israeli military delegation in the midst of a genocide investigation by the ICJ and no major British media outlet has shown the slightest interest in doorstepping him, or in asking questions of the government about his visit?

Only Declassified UK – an independent outlet with a tiny fraction of the resources of the BBC, the Guardian, the Times or the Telegraph – has chased him down, embarrassed him by asking him to his face whether he is a war criminal, and drawn attention to his presence in the UK.

It is not even as though we can assume this collective failure by the British establishment media was an oversight, and that for some inexplicable reason their military and security correspondents all failed to learn of Basyuk’s visit, as Declassified UK had done.

Because all these media outlets also ignored the video that went viral of Declassified UK’s Alex Morris challenging Basyuk to his face, “Are you a war criminal, General Basyuk?” and “Are you worried about being investigated by the ICC for war crimes?”

In stark contrast to the Israeli media, which widely reported on this supremely awkward confrontation for Basyuk, the British media has remained studiously silent.

They have not wondered why Basyuk, or earlier Halevi, has been allowed into the UK. Or what assurances Basyuk was given. Or what he and Halevi were here to discuss with the British officials.

Similarly, they have not taken this as an opportunity to focus on another story that so far has entirely passed them by and that Declassified has been at the forefront of exposing: Britain’s deep complicity in Israel’s genocide and the covert role in the genocide of RAF base Akrotiri, on Cypus.

These are not oversights. They are a consistent pattern of failure by the media that indicates one thing only: that these failures are entirely intentional. The British media has conspired with the British government every bit as criminally as the British government has colluded in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Through its silence, the British media has given the government cover to assist Israel in its mass slaughter of Palestinian civilians.

Europe-wide crackdown


The British establishment media has been similarly silent – if for opposing reasons – on another development related to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

While Basyuk was moving around London to meet British officials without fear of arrest or scrutiny, a Palestinan-American journalist was arrested by the police in Zurich at the weekend shortly before he was about to begin a speaking tour of Switzerland.

Ali Abunimah, editor of the veteran website Electronic Intifada, which is dedicated to Israel-Palestine issues, has been a long-standing and trenchant critic of Israel’s decades of abuses of the Palestinian people.

Alongside Declassified UK and a handful of other independent sites, Electronic Intifada has helped to challenge some of the key narrative deceptions Israel has promoted to rationalise the mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza – fake news that British media outlets have too often enthusiastically regurgitated.

Abunimah and his team undermined falsified claims of Hamas beheading and baking babies alive during its attack on Israel on October 7 2023, and of mass rapes by Hamas fighters that day.

The site has shone a light too on a secretive Israeli military protocol, the Hannibal directive, that was invoked during Hamas’ attack.

It allowed the Israeli military to kill a significant number of Israeli civilians, including children, to prevent them being abducted. Some of the resulting, horrifying deaths have been attributed to Hamas.

United Nations legal and human rights experts lost no time in condemning Abunimah’s arrest, calling it “shocking” and evidence of an “increasingly toxic” climate in Europe towards free speech.

But the Swiss authorities are not acting in isolation. This is part of a concerted, Europe-wide crackdown on protest against Israel or support for Palestinian rights – and Britain has been leading the way.

Draconian terror laws


Abunimah’s British colleague Asa Winstanley, an investigative journalist, had his home raided by London counter-terrorism police in October and his electronic devices seized under draconian terrorism laws.

He is one of several independent journalists being hounded over their criticisms of Israel.

Activists with Palestine Action, and its leader Richard Barnard, have been arrested and charged under similar laws for trying to stop firms in the UK making and supplying weapons to Israel for use in the genocide.

Israeli Jewish activists living in the UK, including Professor Haim Bresheeth and Yael Kahn, both of whom lost family members in the Holocaust, have been arrested in recent months for making speeches criticising Israel’s conduct in Gaza.

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Another anti-Zionist Jewish activist, Tony Greenstein, was charged in December under the same terrorism laws.

And in a sign that the Starmer government is determined to stamp out wider pro-Palestine and anti-genocide activism, the Metropolitan police used an iron fist this month in cracking down on the latest mass peaceful protest in London against the genocide – one that sought to highlight the heavy slanting of the BBC’s coverage in Israel’s favour.

The police arrested and charged two of the march organisers, including Ben Jamal, the director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, with entirely confected “public order” offences.

The Met also interviewed “under caution” and are investigating the march’s two figureheads: the leftwing MPs John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the Labour party.

World on its head


The contrast could not be more clear-cut – or telling.

Starmer’s government is happy to invite foreign war crimes suspects to the UK to learn from them, safe in the knowledge that the British media will do nothing to highlight their crimes or the UK’s complicity in those crimes.

And the Starmer government is equally happy to bully, arrest and charge journalists and peaceful demonstrators opposed to those war crimes, safe in the knowledge that the British media will do nothing to highlight the UK government’s duplicity or its trampling over the fundamental rights of free speech and protest.

The British police leave Israeli state terrorists in peace, while hounding peaceful protesters as terrorists. The world is turned on its head.

But this glaring contrast in treatment – by the government, the Met and the establishment media – serves precisely the same end: shielding Israel and its enablers in the British government from accountability.

All three institutions of the British state have colluded in oiling the wheels of Israel’s genocide machine. All have conspired to keep war crimes suspect General Basyuk out of public view, and make it harder to get him where he belongs: in the dock at The Hague.

All three have played separate but critically important roles in making the genocide in Gaza possible. And for that, they should be put in the dock too.

[Many thanks to Matthew Alford for the audio reading of this article.]

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* Zie: ‘Het enorme verschil in behandeling van Israëlische- vs. Palestijnse gijzelaars: fake news en desinformatie‘ (29 januari 2025) En zie de berichten onder de links in die blogpost!!


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Voorts zie ‘Keir Starmer’s support for the Gaza ceasefire is riddled with lies‘ Estimates are that it will take 80 years to rebuild Gaza. How is a ‘sovereign and viable Palestinian state’, or a ‘better future’, going to emerge out of ruins on that scale? (16 januari 2025, ook een artikel van Jonathan Cook)


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Let op!! De ruimte om reacties weer te geven werkt niet altijd. Als je commentaar hebt en het lukt niet op de normale manier, doe dit dan via het mailadres trippleu@gmail.com, ik zal deze dan opnemen onderaan in het bewuste artikel, althans als je geen geweld predikt, voorts plaats ik jouw reactie ook al staat deze diametraal tegenover dat bericht. Alvast mijn dank voor jouw eventuele reactie, Willem.

Ondervoeding in Groot-Brittannië met 10.000 gevallen gestegen sinds Tories aan bewind zijn

Posted on by Telmo Claro

Al onder Labour werd er honger geleden in Groot-Brittannië (GB) en lag het aantal gevallen van ondervoeding in het laatste jaar dat Labour aan de macht was op ruim meer dan 4.000 gevallen, mensen die door honger te weinig voedingsstoffen binnenkregen en daardoor ziek werden….. Let wel: dat was onder Labour dat als links werd gezien (wat de partij onder opperploert Keir Starmer al helemaal niet meer is….)…..

Zoals te verwachten was is het aantal gevallen van ondervoeding onder het inhumane neoliberale beleid van hare kwaadaardigheid May en de psychopathische idioot Boris Johnson gestegen tot boven de 10.000……

In het bericht van Metro over deze zaak stelt de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel ook al over een verdubbeling van het aantal scheurbuik gevallen, een ziekte die ontstaat door een langdurig gebrek aan vitamine-C (een ziekte die in feite behoort tot een ver verleden, zoals zeelui die hier veelvuldig door werden getroffen ten tijde van de westerse kolonisatie van het ‘verre oosten’), waarbij de schrijver Jen Mills meldt dat het nog een relatief laag aantal is……. Het is dat het zo triest is, anders zou je je kapotlachen, immers hoe is het in godsnaam mogelijk dat anno 2021 nog mensen lijden aan scheurbuik en dat in een relatief rijk land, waar men miljarden in een donkere put heeft gelazerd voor de Coronacrisis en de illegale oorlogen van de VS waaraan dit land deelnam en neemt….

Dagelijks gaan in GB rond de 4 miljoen kinderen met honger naar school, daar krijgen ze hun ontbijt, de ouders krijgen geen extra toelage, daar deze niet zou worden gebruikt voor de kinderen….. (inhumaan en schofterig neoliberalisme in optima forma….) Ouders die voor een groot deel werkloos zijn, ofwel die een zo laag betaalde baan hebben dat ze er onmogelijk van rond kunnen komen en het is dan ook wel duidelijk dat juist deze mensen ondervoeding en zelfs scheurbuik oplopen, al zullen er ongetwijfeld ook veel arme alleenstaanden tussen zitten…..

Welgestelde bekende Britten willen nog wel eens een bak geld geven om kinderen op school te kunnen voeden, zodat ze ‘s avonds niet met honger naar bed hoeven te gaan……. Alsof we terug zijn in de tijden van schrijver Charles Dickens……

Overigens ook in Nederland gaan heel veel kinderen hongerig naar school, kinderen uit achterstandsbuurten, of van gebroken gezinnen waar één of beide ouders eigenlijk geen middelen hebben om hun kind zelfstandig te kunnen voeden en kleden….. Moet je nagaan: deze ellende in Nederland, terwijl we 4 jaar lang een kabinet hebben gehad met 2 christelijke partijen: CDA en ChristenUnie, een kabinet gesteund door de ‘christenbroeders’ van de SGP, deze partij en de ChristenUnie zijn anti-abortus, maar als de kinderen er dan zijn hebben ze geen zin om daar wat voor te doen, zie wat dat betreft ook de ellende met de jeugdzorg die vorige week weer eens de media haalde…… Advocaat Richard Korver maakte zich flink pissig over het feit dat ouders met klachten slechts 5 punten naar voren mogen brengen (in hun klacht), dit is het gevolg van advies dat de zwaar tekortschietende Belastingdienst (zie het kinderopvangtoeslagschandaal) gaf aan Jeugdzorg Nederland, dit nog naast het feit dat ouders die klagen worden weggezet als niet goed zorgend voor hun kinderen, ze zouden meer aandacht voor zichzelf hebben >> een zeer schandelijke en uiterst valse zienswijze!!!

(On the top right hand side of this page you can choose for a translation in the language of your choice, first choose ‘Engels’ [English] so you can recognise your own language [the Google translation is first in Dutch, a language most people don’t understand, while on the other hand most people recognise there language translated in English])

(als je het Engels niet machtig bent, kopieer dan de Engelse tekst en plak die in deze vertaalapp, de app werkt snel en de vertaling is van een redelijk goede kwaliteit)

Malnutrition doubles to over 10,000 cases under Tory rule

Monday 8 Nov 2021 7:02 pm

A photo of Boris Johnson overlaid on top of an image from a food bank

Last year, more than 2.5 million emergency food parcels were given out in the UK (Picture: PA/Getty/SWNS)

Cases of malnutrition have almost doubled in the decade since the Conservatives came to power in 2010.

In the 2010/2011 financial year, people were treated in hospital 4,657 times for the condition.

By the most recent year, 2020/2021, this had risen to 10,109.

Statistics compiled by the NHS also show that cases of the Victorian disease scurvy, which comes from a lack of Vitamin C, have also doubled – although the figures are still relatively low.

Hospital treatments for the deficiency rose from 82 in 2010/11 to 171 in 2020/21.

However, during the same time period, cases of rickets (a condition that affects bone development in children and is often caused by a lack of calcium or Vitamin D) fell from 566 to 391.

The statistics do not include the cause of a patient’s malnutrition or deficiency.

A volunteer sorts food at the Ringcross Foodbank, in north London, where vension from wild deer, which normally would have gone to some of the finest restaurants in the country, is distributed. The deer population has risen to over 2 million during lockdown, the highest level in over 1,000 years, largely as a result of restaurant closures. Picture date: Wednesday March 3, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story SOCIAL Venison. Photo credit should read: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire
A volunteer sorts food at the Ringcross Foodbank in north London (Picture: PA)

This means that it could be due to a poor diet with not enough access to vitamins and other nutrients but it may also be due to a physiological problem such as an inability to absorb nutrients normally, or another disease affecting the patient’s ability to feed normally.

The figures include people first treated for these conditions, as well as those who were initially admitted to hospital for a different reason. They may include instances of the same person being treated in hospital more than once.

In the decade since the Conservatives took power, the use of food banks in the UK has rocketed.

For the year 2009/2010, the year before David Cameron won the election in 2010, The Trussell Trust provided 40,898 emergency three day food parcels.

In 2020/21, approximately 2.5 million parcels were given out in the UK – over 600 thousand more than the previous year.

The charity said this was a 33% increase on the previous year, with 980,000 of the food parcels going to children.

Compared to this time five years ago, need for food banks in their network has increased by 128%, they said.

These figures do not show the full scale of food bank use in the UK, as they only look at the roughly 1,300 operated by the charity and do not take into account parcels given out by more than 1,000 other food banks operating independently from them.

After the Budget last month, the charity’s Garry Lemon criticised Tory policies especially the £20 a week cut to Universal Credit from October 6 which he called a ‘devastating blow’ to millions now ‘facing impossible decisions, struggling to put food on the table or heat their homes’.

He called for urgent investment in longer-term local welfare support and ‘a stronger social security system for everyone who needs it this winter and beyond’.

The Conservatives have defended the £20 benefit reduction, saying the increase was introduced during the coronavirus pandemic and was always intended to be temporary.

Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the figures on the increase in malnutrition and scurvy treatment were ‘a shameful verdict on a decade of Conservative government’.

He said: ‘Poverty makes you ill and illness often traps you in poverty.

‘Tackling the causes of ill health and inequalities is central to Labour’s health plan.’

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.

For more stories like this, check our news page.

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Zie voor de situatie in GB: ‘Keir Starmer (‘Labour leider’) aan de paal genageld door opstappende Labour politicus‘

‘Keir Starmer, Labourleider, is een neoliberale marionet van premier Boris Johnson‘

‘Aantal daklozen in Groot-Brittannië onder Tory bewind meer dan verdubbeld‘ (!!!!)

‘Kinderen in kwetsbare situaties lopen een grote kans zieke volwassenen te worden‘

‘Groot-Brittannië heeft 145 militaire bases in 42 landen‘ En dan zijn kinderen en volwassenen die honger lijden in GB……

‘Groot-Brittannië: het minimumloon, armoede en honger‘

‘VN beschuldigt Lib Dems in GB van een inhumaan bezuinigingsprogramma dat miljoenen mensen en kinderen heeft getroffen‘

‘De heksenjacht in de Labour Party nadat Jeremy Corbyn wegens ‘antisemitisme’ werd geroyeerd: zelfs Joodse Labourpolitici worden uit de partij gezet‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht, anders dan de hieronder getoonde)

‘Labourpolitici in oorlog met elkaar: de antisemitisme leugen tegen Jeremy Corbyn die hem de verkiezingen kostte‘

‘Jeremy Corbyn uit Labour gezet op basis van antisemitisme leugen‘

‘Jackie Walker, een joods journalist, spreekt over de met beschuldigingen van antisemitisme gevoede heksenjacht op Labour en haarzelf‘ Deze link vanwege de smaadcampagne tegen Jeremy Corbyn, een echt linkse politicus die zich inzet tegen de enorme armoede in GB en die door deze campagne de verkiezingen daar verloor…. (o.a. ‘met dank’ aan de zogenaamd onafhankelijke BBC en de NOS in ons land…..)

 ‘Jeremy Corbyn, de Britse Labourleider zal en moet vallen: hij neemt het op voor het arme deel van de bevolking‘

 ‘Gedreven politicus zet BBC presentator te kakken die Labour de schuld wilde geven van de armoede in GB‘

 ‘Honger in GB anno 2019: uitsterfbeleid voor werklozen en andere arme Britten >> velen krijgen geen voedselhulp‘

 ‘Britse kinderen lijden anno 2018 honger, vooral in de vakanties…….‘

‘BBC: Houthi rebellen veroorzakers honger in Jemen……..‘ En zie de links in dat bericht naar meer artikelen over de genocide die in Jemen wordt uitgevoerd.

‘May (Britse premier) over aanslag in Manchester: onze waarden en manier van leven zullen zegevieren……..‘

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Zie voorts: ‘Rutte 2 zorgt ervoor dat dagelijks zo’n 20.000 Nederlandse kinderen ondervoed, vuil en met kapotte kleding naar school moeten……..‘ (9 mei 2015 >> ofwel zelfs met de PvdA als regeringspartij…….)

‘Het Vergeten Kind >> kinderen die getraumatiseerd worden door de jeugdzorg >> teken de petitie ajb‘

‘Vijf dakloze jongeren krijgen als proef € 1.050,– per maand om hun leven weer ‘op de rails te krijgen’‘ (13 maart 2020) Ondanks dat deze proef een succes was, hoor je er niets meer over…….

‘Schippers (VVD minister) hoofdverantwoordelijk voor chaos GGZ-jeugd en suïcides!‘ (8 juni 2017)

‘Asscher (PvdA minister): Roma en Sinti (Reizigers) ‘horen er niet bij…..’‘ (7 december 2016) Ondanks dat ook deze mensen als de Joden op grote schaal werden vermoord door de nazi’s en hun kinderen grote problemen hadden en nog steeds hebben anno 2021…..

‘Jeugdzorg: AKJ liegt over toegenomen aantal klachten…….‘ (24 augustus 2016)

‘Zwerfjongeren boot tijdens Gay Pride………‘ (1 augustus 2015)

‘Martin van Rijn over jeugdzorg: vrije keus voor die zorg is gegarandeerd……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘ (1 augustus 2015)

‘Teeven weet het beter: niets mis met de inspecties van jeugdgevangenissen………‘ (1 november 2014)

‘Jeugdzorg Nederland wil een éénhoofdig ouderlijk gezag‘ (7 mei 2014)

‘Jorritsma blij met jeugdzorg en uitkleden thuiszorg‘ (17 juli 2013) Waar de overheveling van de Jeugdzorg naar gemeenten niets anders was en is dan een smerige bezuiniging, die heel veel ellende heeft veroorzaakt!!

‘Commissie Samson over kindermisbruik in de jeugdzorg‘ (8 oktober 2012)

‘Thomas von der Dunk en de Arondéuslezing 2‘ (28 april 2011)

Keir Starmer (‘Labour leider’) aan de paal genageld door opstappende Labour politicus

Posted on by Telmo Claro

Rachael Swindon, de enorme luis in de pels van Labour opperploert Keir Starmer, heeft de brief gepubliceerd van Stephen Smith, een Labour raadslid van o.a. Aberdeenshire, waarin deze aangeeft uit de Labour partij te stappen en daarmee bijna al zijn andere functies neer te leggen die hij uit naam van Labour bekleedt.

In deze brief stelt Smith dat Starmer hem heeft beschuldigd van antisemitisme, je weet wel de enorme leugen waarmee Starmer niet alleen Jeremy Corbyn uit de partij zette, maar tevens een groot deel van de andere progressieve Labourleden die een progressieve socialistische koers wilden varen, waaronder een aantal mensen van Joodse komaf……. Smith is zo naïef dat hij nog wel stelt zijn Labour collega’s in Faringdon te zullen vragen of hij zijn raadslidmaatschap kan voortzetten en als dat zou worden toegestaan hij dit niet meer voor Labour zal doen….. Uiteraard worden die collega’s door Starmer en de rest van de neoliberale Labourtop onder druk gezet niet akkoord te gaan met voortzetting van zijn werkzaamheden……

Smith is al heel lang Labourlid en heeft als politicus voor Labour onder 5 verschillende leiders gediend.

Smith zegt in zijn brief aan Starmer verder dat hij 58 jaar oud is, zijn leven lang al anti-racist is geweest, een socialist voor het grootste deel van zijn volwassen leven en daarmee de grootst mogelijke uitzondering is geweest op de insinuaties van Starmer dat hij op wat voor manier dan ook een racist of antisemiet zou zijn…… Waaraan hij toevoegt dat hij uit gronde van zijn geweten geen lid kan blijven van een organisatie die zelfs maar zou overwegen dat hij is waarvan Starmer hem beschuldigt……

Met ‘vette tekst’ stelt Smith verder dat hij:

  • een gekozen Labour raadslid is.
  • een solidair lid is van Jewish Voice voor Labour.
  • een jurylid was voor de Anne Frank Awards in 2009.
  • Israel bezocht in 2018 en heeft gebeden bij de westmuur van Jeruzalem.
  • een beoefenaar is van Krav Maga (wat dat met e.e.a. te maken heeft is me totaal onduidelijk)
  • 7 jaar lang hoofdofficier gelijkheid was voor NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers)

Daarna vraagt Smith Starmer:

Een ‘racist?’ Een ‘antisemiet?’

How fucking dare you?! (ik neem aan dat alle lezers wel begrijpen wat Smith hiermee bedoelt)

Smith gaat door met Starmer te vragen waar hij het gore lef vandaan haalt om zelfs Joodse Labourleden van antisemitisme te beschuldigen en noemt Starmer daarbij een stalinist die deze zaak misbruikt voor partij politieke doeleinden (bijvoorbeeld een verandering van ideologie tegengaan die de progressieven Labourleden nastreven voor een sociale politiek die er is voor de achterban en het arme deel van de Britse bevolking en niet voor de grote bedrijven en de welgestelden). Starmer stelt dat je antisemiet bent wanneer je kritiek levert op de fascistische apartheidspolitiek van Israël waarmee deze terreurstaat de Palestijnse gebieden etnisch wil zuiveren en daarbij zelfs een langzame genocide uitvoert op de Palestijnen….. Elke andere staat die zo met een minderheid omgaat zou aan de paal moeten worden genageld, wat dan ook gebeurt, behalve als het om Israël gaat…..

Lees de brief van Stephen Smith (helaas heeft Google het Nederlands uit haar ‘vertaal app’ rechtsboven in deze pagina gehaald, uitermate vreemd, zeker als je nagaat dat het Fries nog steeds wel is opgenomen…. Eén uitweg: kopieer de Engelse tekst en plak deze in de ‘vertaal app’ die je vindt door hier op te klikken.

Het is een schande dat Starmer Labour totaal aan stukken scheurt en van deze partij een neoliberale partij heeft gemaakt zoals die dit was onder de laatste jaren van de oorlogshitser, oorlogsmisdadiger en belastingontduiker Tony Blair…… Voorts is het een feit dat de reguliere media in binnen- en buitenland (van Groot-Brittannië), inclusief de zogenaamd onafhankelijke BBC, daaraan hebben meegeholpen en tegen alle feiten in Jeremy Corbyn hebben beschuldigd van antisemitisme (ook de zogenaamd onafhankelijke zendgemachtigden BNR* en de NOS op de nationale radiozender Radio1, plus onze landelijke dagbladen hebben daaraan bijgedragen……) Deze lastercampagne kostte Corbyn de Britse verkiezingen……..

Dear Keir: Starmer’s Record Destroyed By Resigning Councillor

Sir Keir Starmer MP

Leader of the Labour Party

21 September 2021

BY POST AND EMAIL


Dear Keir,

I write to resign membership of the Labour Party and consequently my elected offices as Wantage CLP Policy Officer, Executive Committee member and Conference delegate.


I will ask members of the Faringdon Labour Party branch for their view of my continued membership of Faringdon town council; but even if they wish me to continue, will no longer serve as a Labour Party councillor.


I do so reluctantly, having been a Labour Party member for many years, under 5 different Leaders.


I am 58, a lifelong and active anti racist, a socialist most of my adult life and take the greatest possible exception to your insinuation I am in any way a racist or an anti-Semite. I cannot in all conscience remain a member of an organisation that would even consider this to be possible.


I am an elected Labour councillor.

I am a solidarity member of Jewish Voice for Labour.

I was a judge for the Ann Frank Awards in 2009.

I visited Israel in Easter 2018 and prayed at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

I am a Grade 2 Krav Maga practitioner.

I was NASUWT’s Principal Officer for Equality for 7 years.

A ‘racist’? An ’anti-semite’?

How fucking dare you?!

How dare you preside over this McCarthyism and establish a Stalinist bureaucracy where lifelong anti-racists like me are being witch-hunted for entirely sectarian political reasons?


How dare you allow the cancer of anti-semitism to be weaponised and trivialised for factional disputes – then look at yourself in a mirror when Jewish members are being suspended, expelled and disciplined in unprecedented numbers? It is beyond shameful.


Last week I answered spurious allegations made about me in full. That response has neither been considered nor evaluated – instead, exactly the same material has been used to ‘justify’ an administrative suspension 3 days before Conference.


I understand from NEC member Mish Rahman that this has happened to hundreds of Conference delegates. It is a blatantly dishonest, anti-democratic and factional abuse of process and I will have nothing more to do with a Party prepared to plumb such depths.


How can you possibly allow tens of thousands of members to simply drift away from Labour, disheartened your leadership team’s abject failure to oppose the most incompetent and vicious Tory Government in living memory?


Labour is consistently struggling in opinion polls despite hundreds of thousands of unnecessary Covid deaths; leaving the European Union without a feasible deal; threats to peace in Northern Ireland; actively destroying the goodwill of our European neighbours; the Tories breaking election promises unchallenged; and an unprecedented and growing gap between rich and poor.


It is an abject failure to offer a credible, coherent, principled alternative and an appalling indictment that you and this Party are consistently trailing in opinion polls and losing safe seats like Hartlepool.


The record of the Labour Party under your stewardship is unprincipled, incompetent and abject:


Refusing to oppose the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill, which gave state agents legal immunity for murder, rape, torture and kidnapping.


Appointing David Evans, a man on record as opposed to the very concept of party democracy, as our General Secretary. A man chosen ahead of two more suitable women, and a Blairite dinosaur with a record of cronyism in Croydon, happily presiding over the McCarthyism destroying Labour’s integrity.


Sacking Rebecca Long-Bailey on a pathetic pretext and for entirely sectarian political advantage; yet turning Nelson’s eye to Barry Sheerman and Steven Reed’s prima facie anti-Semitism. This was nauseating hypocrisy.


Ignoring the genuine concerns of teaching and education unions in favour of your data-free and evidence-free grandstanding about ‘keeping schools open’, despite them being (and remaining) hotbeds of Covid infection.


Undermining the findings of Labour’s own NEC by withdrawing the Parliamentary whip from Jeremy Corbyn: then lying about it by saying it was done by the General Secretary – then subsequently admitting on Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio programme that it was in fact your decision. You can’t even lie competently!


Burying the Forde Report, when the despicable behaviour, racism, bullying and destructive acts of Ian MacNicol, Emilie Oldknow and other staffers should have been exposed and been grounds for disciplinary and legal action. (In short, people who actively worked AGAINST the interests of our Party were protected, for factional reasons) You have as a result undermined the standing of this Party amongst black and minority ethnic communities: it is indefensible.


Refusing to defend Liverpool Labour council from a political takeover by a hard-right Conservative government: in fact, acquiescing in it. This was both shameful and spineless.


Making even the discussion of Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension, grounds for suspension.


Making CLP or Branch motions of confidence, in either you or David Evans, grounds for suspension.


Portraying all of the above as, somehow, ‘anti-Semitic’.


Calling for the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon – subsequently found not to have breached the Ministerial Code – yet refusing to do the same for Matt Hancock, Boris Johnson, Robert Jenrick, Priti Patel and Michael Gove, all of whom HAVE breached the Ministerial Code.


Not calling for the resignation of Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, after the violent conduct of Met Police officers breaking up a peaceful women’s demonstration in Battersea.


Reinstating staff named in ‘Labour Leaks’ documents, including those who – I can hardly believe I have to say this – actively campaigned AGAINST the Labour Party until 2019 and were involved in bullying, racism, misogyny and helping journalists hostile to the Labour Party, including being complicit in the shameful bullying of Diane Abbott.


Interfering in the selection of Liverpool Mayoral candidates and sabotaging a shortlist of 3 women, all of whom held senior office within the City council – again for sectarian political reasons.


Presiding over a Hartlepool ‘selection’ exercise which produced a shortlist (sic) of one white man, an apologist for the barbaric Saudi Arabian regime, who used social media posts to talk about ’Tory MILFs’ and was entirely unsuitable to contest the seat – a seat then lost to the Conservatives for the first time since it was created.


Then saying you’d accept responsibility for that by-election result – but failing to do so and throwing Angela Rayner under the bus, sacking her from the Party Chair role.


Proscribing 3 organisations simply for being critical of the current direction (sic) of the Labour Party leadership. This is pathetic, Poundland McCarthyism at the very time when this Government has presided over 150,000 excess deaths, allowing C-19 to rip through the population for the fourth time.


Doing literally nothing when Labour (sic) MP Neil Coyle called for the mass expulsion of Jewish Voice for Labour – an organisation of exclusively Jewish Labour members! (If that doesn’t meet the most basic definition of anti-semitism, I’m not sure what does…..)


And even today, as I write this, your pre-Conference manoeuvre to tear up something as fundamental as ‘one person one vote’, in favour of a system giving an MP a thousand votes against the one that ‘ordinary’ Party members have.


That is laughably undemocratic.


I could go on at length, but I will save us both the time and heartache.


Under your stewardship, and to the detriment of the people we seek to represent, I see no prospect of Labour being back in government.


You made ten ‘pledges’ during the last Leadership election and have already broken each and every one.


You were therefore elected on an entirely false premise and while I did not vote for you, I at least expected the most basic standards of honesty and integrity. How naive…


Instead, you and the dinosaurs who ‘advise’ you have given life again to the notion that ‘all politicians are the same’ and can’t be trusted.


There is no future in ‘split the difference’ politics, pandering to right wing media and re-heated Blairism. It is a political cul-de-sac.


When a mainstream, experienced member of Labour like myself – a councillor, CLP office holder and a career trade union officer – struggles to offer credible reasons to vote Labour, what chance do other Labour members across the country have trying to enthuse people?


I hope, even now, you will consider your position and put the interests of the country and ordinary people before the insatiable factionalism of the right wing of the Parliamentary Labour Party.


That you will either undertake to lead on the basis of your ‘promises’ and Party policies, or make way for someone with the courage and principle to speak up for our Party and our people.


Until that happens, I will remain an ex-member of the once-great Party, a Party you have already shown you are entirely unfit to lead.


Yours,

Cllr. Stephen Smith​​​​​​​​​​ (ex) Policy Officer and Executive Committee member, Wantage Constituency Labour Party.


Many thanks to Cllr for kindly giving permission to republish his excellent letter.

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* BNR begon een paar maanden geleden met een spotje waarin dit station meldde volkomen onafhankelijk te zijn, een leugen van giga proporties, in datzelfde spotje wordt gezegd dat BNR ‘nieuws maakt’ en ja dat is regelmatig het geval!! De meeste programma’s van BNR worden betaald door bedrijven en voorts zijn ‘programmamakers’ als de ‘buitenlanddeskundige Hammelburg, VVD paljas Boekestijn en Rob de Wijk (Haaags Centrum voor Strategische Studies, grootlobbyisten van: het militair-industrieel complex, de NAVO en het uiterst agressieve en terroristische buitenlandbeleid van de VS….. ‘BNR onafhankelijk?’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

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Zie ook: ‘Israël: het ware verhaal gaat ver voorbij aan de (ook westerse) propaganda‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht over de dagelijkse Israëlische terreur tegen het verdrukte Palestijnse volk!!)

‘Oprichter Amnesty International: 100 jaar geleden geboren‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

‘Israël gaat wat betreft apartheid nog een heel stuk verder dan destijds het witte minderheidsbewind in Zuid-Afrika‘

‘Keir Starmer, Labourleider, is een neoliberale marionet van premier Boris Johnson‘

‘Aantal daklozen in Groot-Brittannië onder Tory bewind meer dan verdubbeld‘

‘De heksenjacht in de Labour Party nadat Jeremy Corbyn wegens ‘antisemitisme’ werd geroyeerd: zelfs Joodse Labourpolitici worden uit de partij gezet‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht, anders dan de hieronder getoonde)

‘Labourpolitici in oorlog met elkaar: de antisemitisme leugen tegen Jeremy Corbyn die hem de verkiezingen kostte‘

‘Jeremy Corbyn uit Labour gezet op basis van antisemitisme leugen‘

‘Jackie Walker, een joods journalist, spreekt over de met beschuldigingen van antisemitisme gevoede heksenjacht op Labour en haarzelf‘

‘Opperrabbijn Mirvis besmeurt Labour vlak voor verkiezingen, over het ongeoorloofd beïnvloeden van verkiezingen gesproken‘

 ‘Boris Johnson vs. Jeremy Corbyn en de massamedia‘

 ‘Niet Rusland maar Trump beïnvloedt nu al de verkiezingen in Groot-Brittannië‘

 ‘Jeremy Corbyn, de Britse Labourleider zal en moet vallen: hij neemt het op voor het arme deel van de bevolking‘

 ‘Gedreven politicus zet BBC presentator te kakken die Labour de schuld wilde geven van de armoede in GB‘

 ‘Honger in GB anno 2019: uitsterfbeleid voor werklozen en andere arme Britten >> velen krijgen geen voedselhulp‘

 ‘Britse kinderen lijden anno 2018 honger, vooral in de vakanties…….‘

‘Jeremy Corbyn (Labour en oppositie leider GB) veegt de vloer aan met vertrekkende ‘centrum’ Labour fractieleden‘

‘Corbyn als schietschijf voor het Britse leger, reactie Tories: Corbyn is een groot gevaar voor Brittannië……‘

‘Labour politicus Joan Ryan, die gisteren uit de partij stapte, werd op video betrapt met leugens om critici van Israël te belasteren‘

‘BBC presentator maakt per ongeluk promotie voor het socialisme‘

‘Simon Wiesenthal Center: antisemitische top tien 2018 >> o.a. moorden toegestaan voor Joden‘

‘BBC Media Action: een smerige propaganda organisatie, mede door Nederland betaald‘ (!!!!)

Aantal daklozen in Groot-Brittannië onder Tory bewind meer dan verdubbeld

Posted on by Telmo Claro

Terwijl de politieke leiders die er toe doen in Groot-Brittannië (GB), zijne kwaadaardige hufterigheid Boris Johnson, de premier, plus grootschoft en oplichter Keir Starmer van Labour, die zich gedraagt als een Tory politicus, over elkaar heen buitelen over ‘het succes’ dat men Brexit noemt (terwijl beiden eerder tegenstander waren van die Brexit), wordt een belangrijke groep met opzet vergeten, de daklozen en dan m.n. de wat men in GB ‘rough sleepers’ noemt, mensen die zijn overgeleverd aan de elementen…… Volgens The Guardian zijn er 320.000 rough sleepers in GB, maar reken gerust dat dit aantal veel groter is……..

Het aantal van deze daklozen is de laatste 5 jaar onder Tory bewind meer dan verdubbeld, mensen die een sterk kortere levensverwachting hebben dan de gemiddelde Brit: 30 jaar korter, dus niet de 75 jaar voor mannen en 73 jaar voor vrouwen, maar respectievelijk 45 en 43 jaar…….

Raechel Swindon schreef een artikel over deze zaak en maakt zich flink pissig over de gelogen cijfers die de overheid gebruikt als het om daklozen gaat…..

Zeker Starmer moet zich de oren van de rotkop schamen, immers hij heeft met hulp van een flink aantal valse Labour politici en de media (inclusief de zogenaamde onafhankelijke BBC) de verkiezingen gestolen van de echte Labour leider Jeremy Corbyn (ten voordele van de Tories) dit met de smerige leugen dat hij antisemiet zou zijn, een aantoonbare smerige leugen die ook de media buiten GB herhaalden, ook al had men alle mogelijkheden om deze leugen door te prikken…… (ook de media in ons land herhaalden deze leugen, inclusief de zogenaamd onafhnakelijke NOS…….)

‘Gewone daklozen’ in GB……

Corbyn is een politicus die zich wel deze enorme ellende aantrok en daar een eind aan wilde maken, zoals hij ook een eind wilde maken aan het feit dat dagelijks meer dan 4 miljoen kinderen met honger naar school gaan, waar ze de eerste maaltijd van de dag krijgen (waardoor ze ‘uiteraard’ het onderwerp van spot zijn van hun klasgenoten….). De Tories en eerder Labour o.a. onder de zware oorlogsmisdadiger Tony Blair, weigerden (en weigeren) iets aan deze zaak te veranderen, door de werkloze ouders een inkomen te geven waarmee ze hun kinderen fatsoenlijk te eten kunnen geven…..

Wat betreft het voorgaande moet nog opgemerkt worden dat het werkelijke aantal kinderen dat honger lijdt nu veel hoger moet zijn, waarschijnlijk zelfs bijna 5 miljoen….. Nog erger: door de ‘lock downs’ werden en zijn scholen gesloten en deze kinderen moeten nu dus hun schoolmaaltijden missen…..

En nee, het is niet 1821 maar 2021…..

Lees het artikel van Swindon en zegt het voort, tijd dat ook de Nederlanders eindelijk verteld wordt hoe de vork in de Britse steel steekt: een uiterst inhumane en ijskoude neoliberale maatschappij waar geen compassie is met de allerzwaksten……… (het is wat betreft de dakloosheid in ons land niet veel beter >> zie de links onder het artikel van Raechel Swindon)

@Rachael_Swindon

The Rough Sleeping Crisis Is A Moral Emergency – Made By The Tories

Posted: 30 Dec 2020 11:21 AM PST


While the Covid-19 pandemic continues to seize control of the news agenda, and Tory Prime Minister Johnson and Diet Tory Leader Starmer thrash it out over who can be the most Brexity – which is rather bizarre for a pair of closet Remainers – the domestic agenda hasn’t just been overlooked, it has been completely and utterly abandoned.

The most obvious example of this neglect from the political class can be found sleeping in shop doorways, multi-story car parks, allotment sheds, and just about anywhere that might provide some short term shelter from the elements.

The UK has seen a fair amount of snowfall over the last few days, and the forecast ahead suggests temperatures will be hovering around freezing for a while yet.

Be in no doubt, the rough sleeping crisis was out of control before the arrival of Covid-19. In fact, consecutive Conservative governments have more than DOUBLED the number of people sleeping rough.

Since the global turn to austerity in 2010, every country that introduced significant austerity has seen its economy suffer, with the depth of the suffering closely related to the harshness of the austerity.

The ideological austerity that dominated elite discourse five years ago has now collapsed – to the point where hardly anyone still believes it – but the consequences of the huge cuts to public spending are still very real.

Rough sleeping is the most brutal form of homelessness, but we still do not have a clear picture of how many people are forced to sleep on our streets throughout the year. This is because the government get their numbers based on counting the number of people seen on one night alone. It’s just a snapshot.

This cannot and will not accurately reflect the real scale of the problem.

While the government claimed some 4,266 humans are sleeping on our cold streets, figures gathered from local councils and homelessness charities indicate the true numberis around FIVE times higher.


I don’t know why, but I tend to invest more of my trust in established charities than I would ever consider investing in establishment politicians.

Back in April, Robert Jenrick, the Secretary of State for Richard Desmond, boldly claimed:

“Our plan to protect rough sleepers has resulted in over 90% being offered safe accommodation”

This was following the government’s ‘Everyone In scheme’, launched in March by Jenrick, which gave emergency funding to help rough sleepers self-isolate in hotels and other housing during the height of the pandemic.

That 90% sounds impressive, doesn’t it?

It also makes you wonder why consecutive Conservative governments hadn’t already dealt with the rough sleeping crisis. If a vast majority of people sleeping rough could be housed, or at least offered housing, with such apparent ease, why didn’t David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson do something about it before?

All three of them have made the crisis demonstrably worse.

When Boris Johnson was Mayor of London he promised to eliminate rough sleeping in the capital city, by the year 2012, just in time for the Olympics. Instead of eliminating it, he doubled it.

The 90% figure touted by Jenrick is entirely false, of course.

Reports of people sleeping rough INCREASED during lockdown. Does this suggest 90% were either housed, or even offered adequate accommodation? No.

Figures from homelessness charity Streetlink showed alerts by members of the public about people sleeping rough soared by 36% year on year between April and June 2020, reaching 16,976. The rise was particularly pronounced in London where there was a 76% increase, making up a shocking 71% of all alerts.

Does this suggest 9 in 10 of people sleeping rough were offered some form of accommodation?

No. Of course not.

The criticism of the government’s blatant figure-fiddling also came from the Office for Statistics Regulation, who slammed ministers for a lack of transparency by quoting figures without publishing supporting data. In other words, chatting shit without an iota of supporting evidence – bog standard for this lousy government.

Beneath all of this data and deception are human beings. Mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, children – it could be absolutely any one of us.

We – and I mean all of us that have compassion for our fellow humans, regardless of politician persuasion – cannot just turn a blind eye to these levels of destitution and suffering.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t walk past some poor soul, huddled up in the doorway of a vacant shop, shivering cold, without feeling like a little bit of me is dying on the inside.

There were an estimated 778 deaths of homeless people in England and Wales registered in 2019, an increase of 7.2% from 2018. That’s nearly fifteen deaths, every single week. This colossal number of tragic deaths has more than doubled over the past 5 Tory years.

GGGVD!!!!!

It is heartbreaking that hundreds of people were forced to spend the last days of their lives without the dignity of a secure home. This is a moral emergency and none of us can continue to stand by – we need urgent action from the government.

In 2018, the average age at death of people sleeping rough was just 45 for men and 43 for women. This is more than 30 years lower than the average age at death of the general population of England and Wales.

I’ve done a bit of research, and homeless charity Crisis UK kindly offered me a little bit of advice on what YOU can do to help people sleeping rough.A national emergency requires a national response.

Advice from Crisis UK –

Snow is falling across the country, leaving thousands of rough sleepers exposed to freezing temperatures. If you see a rough sleeper today there’s plenty you can do.

•If you’re in England or Wales contact @Tell_StreetLink – an app and helpline that connects rough sleepers with local services. Details for Streetlink can be found right here.

•If you’re in Scotland, contact your local council – you can also contact:

Glasgow – If you see or meet someone you are concerned about you can call the RSVP freephone number on 0800 027 7466

Edinburgh – Streetwork Helpline: 0808 178 2323

Anyone can call their 24hr freephone helpline for immediate advice or support.

•Due to the cold weather, emergency winter night shelters should be in operation. Visit the @HomelessLink directory which lists homelessness services in your area just here.

•If someone appears to be in immediate danger you should call 999.

If you are worried about someone’s being at risk of homelessness, direct them to Shelter Housing Advice Helpline on 0808 800 4444.

If the person is young you can find advice on the @centrepointuk website just here.

•Finally, one of the most important things you can do is simply stop and talk to someone. Rough sleeping can be an isolating, devastating experience – a shared word could make all the difference.

A representative from Crisis UK told me:

“The other question we’re often asked is about giving money directly to people rather than buying them food. We leave the cash issue to an individual’s own discretion but suggest they ask the person if they’d like a coffee etc before getting them one.

We’ve also found recently that people have started carrying around vouchers for places like Greggs and handing them out instead of cash. Right now, with so many cashless transactions happening, it’s a handy alternative to finding spare change.”

You can find out much more about Crisis UK and how you can support their excellent work by clicking on this link.

I have read some devastating stories putting this piece together. Can you even begin to imagine what it would be like bedding down in the sewers, with the rats, for FOUR MONTHS?

I have read so many stories that you simply wouldn’t believe to be possible in a country of such vast wealth – a country that is home to more than 150 billionaires.

This is a national scandal, a national emergency, and by god does it need a national response, because the rough sleeping epidemic already has a vaccine, and it is called “a home”. This disease has been left untreated for way too long.


It is a stain on the consciences of every single one of us.

Shops, offices, and houses lay empty up and down the land, while human beings are freezing to death on our streets.

Do you have to be a socialist to find this morally repugnant?

I sincerely hope not.

I’m going to finish up with this little poem that I found that was created by a person sleeping rough, named as Jacob.

“All I got is this bag

Tattered and so frayed

One pair of socks to call my own

No place for my head to lay.

Beg for money to buy my foodNo fork or knife, man this is crude

I wish I knew what I could do

I should slam a six of booze.

People passing in fine business suits

As if I am not here

“I am a man!” I want to shout

This life is hard to bare.

There is no job to be had

So I sit and hope for better things

I organize my tattered bag

Whatever it takes to not feel sad.

The sun is setting it is night

My fight has just begun

I pray I won’t freeze before it’s through

Although I wish my life was done.”

We can, and we must put an end to the rough sleeping emergency.

Take care my friends, the virus is on the march, and our government is in tatters.

Rachael x

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Ook in Nederland ‘weet de overheid wel weg met daklozen’: ‘Kerst: veel mooipraterij terwijl gemeenten daklozen het etiket ‘zelfredzaam’ opplakken en hen daarmee opvang weigeren…….. Beschaving anno 2017….‘

‘Leids college van B&W zet ongedocumenteerden op straat tijdens de Coronacrisis….. ‘DASLIEF……..’‘ (college B&W in Leiden met o.a. GroenLinks uh AsgrauwRechts…..)

‘CBS meldt 31.000 daklozen in ons puissant rijke land………. Lang leve Rutte 2!‘ (een bericht van 3 maart 2016, waar men toen al sprak van een verdubbeling in 10 jaar tijd, sinds 2016 is dit aantal opgelopen tot bijna 40.000 dakloze mensen (waaronder veel jongeren), ofwel de toename van het aantal daklozen gaat voort in hetzelfde tempo; waar een klein land ‘al niet groot in kan zijn’, met ‘dank aan het inhumane neoliberale kabinet Rutte 3….’)

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Zie ook: ‘De heksenjacht in de Labour Party nadat Jeremy Corbyn wegens ‘antisemitisme’ werd geroyeerd: zelfs Joodse Labourpolitici worden uit de partij gezet‘

‘Labourpolitici in oorlog met elkaar: de antisemitisme leugen tegen Jeremy Corbyn die hem de verkiezingen kostte‘

‘Jeremy Corbyn uit Labour gezet op basis van antisemitisme leugen‘

‘Jackie Walker, een joods journalist, spreekt over de met beschuldigingen van antisemitisme gevoede heksenjacht op Labour en haarzelf‘

‘Opperrabbijn Mirvis besmeurt Labour vlak voor verkiezingen, over het ongeoorloofd beïnvloeden van verkiezingen gesproken‘

 ‘Boris Johnson vs. Jeremy Corbyn en de massamedia‘

 ‘Niet Rusland maar Trump beïnvloedt nu al de verkiezingen in Groot-Brittannië‘

 ‘Jeremy Corbyn, de Britse Labourleider zal en moet vallen: hij neemt het op voor het arme deel van de bevolking‘

 ‘Gedreven politicus zet BBC presentator te kakken die Labour de schuld wilde geven van de armoede in GB‘

 ‘Honger in GB anno 2019: uitsterfbeleid voor werklozen en andere arme Britten >> velen krijgen geen voedselhulp‘

 ‘Britse kinderen lijden anno 2018 honger, vooral in de vakanties…….‘

‘Jeremy Corbyn (Labour en oppositie leider GB) veegt de vloer aan met vertrekkende ‘centrum’ Labour fractieleden‘

‘Corbyn als schietschijf voor het Britse leger, reactie Tories: Corbyn is een groot gevaar voor Brittannië……‘

‘Labour politicus Joan Ryan, die gisteren uit de partij stapte, werd op video betrapt met leugens om critici van Israël te belasteren‘

‘BBC presentator maakt per ongeluk promotie voor het socialisme‘

‘Simon Wiesenthal Center: antisemitische top tien 2018 >> o.a. moorden toegestaan voor Joden‘

‘BBC Media Action: een smerige propaganda organisatie, mede door Nederland betaald‘

Labourpolitici in oorlog met elkaar: de antisemitisme leugen tegen Jeremy Corbyn die hem de verkiezingen kostte

Posted on by Telmo Claro
Nog steeds ongelofelijk dat de Labour top liever de verkiezingen in Groot-Brittannië verloor dan Corbyn deze te laten winnen. De smeercampagne van een aantal Labourleden tegen Corbyn en zijn zogenaamde antisemitisme, kostte hem vorig jaar de Britse verkiezingen, een campagne gesteund door het Britse leger, de pro-Israëlische lobby en de reguliere (massa-) media, inclusief de zogenaamde onafhankelijke BBC……
De nieuwe voorzitter van Labour, Keir Starmer, heeft van meet af aan alle pogingen om Corbyn alsnog te rehabiliteren gesaboteerd en heeft rapporten laten verdwijnen die e.e.a. aantoonden……. De zogenaamde klokkenluiders, prominente Labour politici die de partij zouden hebben verlaten vanwege het antisemitische gehalte, wordt nog steeds de hand boven het hoofd gehouden, ook al konden zij totaal geen bewijs geven voor Corbyns antisemitisme, anders dan kritiek van Corbyn op de bloedige terreur van Israël tegen de Palestijnen als antisemitisch af te doen……..

Alsof het antisemitisch is als je een land aanklaagt voor het vervolgen van een minderheid, zoals de Joden werden vervolgd door nazi-Duitsland….. Corbyn was juist een anti-fascist en heeft meermaals de holocaust als een beestachtige massamoord neergezet……(hij was zelfs bevriend met Hajo Meijer, een Joodse concentratiekamp overlevende, die jarenlang bestuurslid was van Een Ander Joods Geluid……)

Keir Starmer - Wikipedia

De psychopathische neoliberale opperschoft Keir Starmer

De holocaust is geen excuus voor de slachtoffers om andere volkeren te vervolgen, hen hun land af te nemen en middels bruut geweld en massamoord te verjagen, gevolgd door het afknijpen van het Palestijnse volk door Israël met: -moord op vooral ongewapende Palestijnse burgers en hun kinderen, -het onleefbaar maken van hun overgebleven woongebieden door het creëren van een groot watertekort en een zelfde tekort aan elektriciteit, -deze gebieden onbereikbaar maken voor boeren en -de continue vernedering van deze mensen bij de Israëlische blokkades op de West Bank…… Om over de vreselijke situatie in de openluchtgevangenis Gazastrook nog maar te zwijgen….. Oh en dan vergeet ik nog het vernietigen van ontwikkelingsprojecten voor de Palestijnen door Israël, projecten bekostigd door de EU en haar lidstaten (zoals Nederland..)…..

Lees het volgende artikel dat ik overnam van Information Clearing House, waarin uitgebreid wordt aangetoond dat Corbyn en leden van zijn team op een schunnige manier zijn gedemoniseerd, zonder enige bewijsvoering…. Het ging veel te goed met Corbyn en men wilde koste wat kost voorkomen dat Labour een meer sociaal karakter zou krijgen….. Het is nu zelfs zover dat Starmer, de opvolger van Corbyn, echte antisemieten in zijn team heeft aangesteld…… Fascisten als Rachel Reeves die Nancy Astor prees in een Twitterbericht, Astor was een bewonderaar van Hitler en daarmee een bekende antisemitische fascist, Reeves weigerde botweg de ‘tweet’ te verwijderen…… Ongelofelijk dat de reguliere westerse media (ook in Nederland) die zo op de antisemitische trom roffelden als het over Corbyn ging, er in dit overduidelijke geval van antisemitisme totaal het zwijgen toe doen……
UK Labour party teeters on brink of civil war over antisemitism

New leader Keir Starmer spurns two chances to clear Jeremy Corbyn’s name, preferring instead to pay damages to former staff
By Jonathan Cook

July 31, 2020 “Information Clearing House” – Jeremy Corbyn, the former left-wing leader of Britain’s Labour party, is once again making headlines over an “antisemitism problem” he supposedly oversaw during his five years at the head of the party.

This time, however, the assault on his reputation is being led not by the usual suspects – pro-Israel lobbyists and a billionaire-owned media – but by Keir Starmer, the man who succeeded him.

Since becoming Labour leader in April, Starmer has helped to bolster the evidence-free narrative of a party plagued by antisemitism under Corbyn. That has included Starmer’s refusal to exploit two major opportunities to challenge that narrative.

Had those chances been grasped, Labour might have been able to demonstrate that Corbyn was the victim of an underhand campaign to prevent him from reaching power.

Starmer, had he chosen to, could have shown that Corbyn’s long history as an anti-racism campaigner was twisted to discredit him. His decades of vocal support for Palestinian rights were publicly recast as a supposed irrational hatred of Israel based on an antipathy to Jews.

But instead Starmer chose to sacrifice his predecessor rather than risk being tarred with the same brush.

As a result, Labour now appears to be on the brink of open war. Competing rumors suggest Corbyn may be preparing to battle former staff through the courts, while Starmer may exile his predecessor from the party.

Rocketing membership

Corbyn’s troubles were inevitable the moment the mass membership elected him Labour leader in 2015 in defiance of the party bureaucracy and most Labour MPs. Corbyn was determined to revive the party as a vehicle for democratic socialism and end Britain’s role meddling overseas as a junior partner to the global hegemon of the United States.

That required breaking with Labour’s capture decades earlier, under Tony Blair, as a party of neoliberal orthodoxy at home and neoconservative orthodoxy abroad.

Until Corbyn arrived on the scene, Labour had become effectively a second party of capital alongside Britain’s ruling Conservative party, replicating the situation in the US with the Democratic and Republican parties.

His attempts to push the party back towards democratic socialism attracted hundreds of thousands of new members, quickly making Labour the largest party in Europe. But it also ensured a wide-ranging alliance of establishment interests was arrayed against him, including the British military, the corporate media, and the pro-Israel lobby.

Politicized investigation

Unlike Corbyn, Starmer has not previously shown any inclination to take on the might of the establishment. In fact, he had previously proven himself its willing servant.

As head of Britain’s prosecution service in 2013, for example, his department issued thinly veiled threats to Sweden to continue its legal pursuit of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who had sought political asylum in London’s Ecuadorean embassy, even as Swedish interest in the case waned.

With his background in realpolitik, Starmer appears to have grasped quickly the danger of being seen to share any common ground with Corbyn – not only should he pursue significant elements of his predecessor’s program, but by challenging the carefully crafted establishment narrative around Corbyn.

For this reason, he has refused to seize either of the two chances presented to him to demonstrate that Labour had no more of an antisemitism problem than the relatively marginal one that exists more generally in British society.

That failure is likely to prove all the more significant given that in a matter of weeks Labour is expected to face the findings of an investigation by the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission.

The highly politicized watchdog body, which took on the probe into Labour while refusing to investigate plentiful evidence of an Islamophobia problem in the Conservative party, is expected to shore up the Corbyn-antisemitism narrative.

Labour has said it will readily accept the Commission’s findings, whatever they are. The watchdog body is likely to echo the prevailing narrative that Corbyn attracted left-wingers to the party who were ideologically tainted with antisemitism masquerading as anti-Zionism. As a result, or so the argument goes, Jew hatred flourished on his watch.

Starmer has already declared “zero tolerance” of antisemitism, but he has appeared willing – in line with pro-Israel lobbyists in his party – to conflate Jew hatred with trenchant criticism of Israel.

The barely veiled intention is to drive Corbynite members out of Labour – either actively through suspensions or passively as their growing disillusionment leads to a mass exodus.

By distancing himself from his predecessor, Starmer knows no dirt will stick to him even as the Equality Commission drags Corbyn’s name through the mud.

Sabotaged from within

Starmer rejected the first chance to salvage the reputations of Corbyn and the wider Labour membership days after he became leader.

In mid-April, an 850-page internal party report was leaked, stuffed with the text of lengthy email exchanges and WhatsApp chats by senior party staff. They showed that, as had long been suspected, Corbyn’s own officials worked hard to sabotage his leadership from within.

Staff at headquarters still loyal to the Blair vision of the party even went so far as to actively throw the 2017 general election, when Labour was a hair’s-breadth away from ousting the Conservatives from government. These officials hoped a crushing defeat would lead to Corbyn’s removal from office.

The report described a “hyper-factional atmosphere”, with officials, including then-deputy leader Tom Watson, regularly referring to Corbyn and his supporters as “Trots” – a reference to Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of a violent Communist revolution in Russia more than a century ago.

Corbynites were thrown out of the party on the flimsiest pretexts, such as describing those like Blair who led the 2003 attack on Iraq as “warmongers”.

But one early, favored tactic by staff in the disciplinary unit was to publicize antisemitism cases and then drag out their resolution to create the impression that the party under Corbyn was not taking the issue seriously.

These officials also loosened the definition of antisemitism to pursue cases against Corbyn’s supporters who, like him, were vocal in defending Palestinian rights or critical of Israeli policies.

This led to the preposterous situation where Labour was suspending and expelling anti-Zionist Jews who supported Corbyn on the grounds that they were supposedly antisemites, while action was delayed on dealing with a Holocaust denier.

The narrative against Corbyn being crafted by his own officials was eagerly picked up and amplified by the strong contingent of Blairites among Labour legislators in the parliament, as well as by the corporate media and by Israel lobbyists both inside and outside Labour.

Effort to bury report

The parties responsible for leaking the report in April did so because Labour, now led by Starmer, had no intention of publicizing it.

In fact, the report had been originally compiled as part of Labour’s submission to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, effectively giving Corbyn’s side of the story against his opponents.

But once Corbyn stepped down, the party bureaucracy under Starmer preferred to shelve it. That decision meant there would be no case for the defense, and Corbyn’s opponents’ claims would go unchallenged.

Once leaked, Starmer stuck to his position. Rather than use the report as an opportunity to expose the ugly campaign against Corbyn and thereby question the antisemitism narrative, Starmer did his level best to bury it from sight.

He vowed to investigate “the circumstances in which the report was put into the public domain”. That sounded ominously like a threat to hound those who had tried to bring to light the party’s betrayal of its previous leader.

Rather than accept the evidence presented in the leaked report of internal corruption and the misuse of party funds, Starmer set up an inquiry under QC Martin Forde to investigate the earlier investigation.

The Forde inquiry looked like Starmer’s effort to kick the damaging revelations into the long grass.

The British media gave the leaked report – despite its earth-shattering revelations of Labour officials sabotaging an election campaign – little more than perfunctory coverage.

Labour ‘whistleblowers’

A second, related chance to challenge the Corbyn-antisemitism narrative reached its conclusion last week. And again, Starmer threw in Labour’s hand.

In July last year – long before the report had been leaked – the BBC’s prestige news investigation show Panorama set out to answer a question it posed in the episode’s title: “Is Labour Antisemitic?”

John Ware, a reporter openly hostile to Corbyn and well-known for supporting Israel and his antipathy towards Muslims, was chosen to front the investigation.

The program presented eight former staff as “whistleblowers”, their testimonies supposedly exposing Corbyn’s indulgence of antisemitism. They included those who would soon be revealed in the leaked report as intractable ideological enemies of the Corbyn project and others who oversaw the dysfunctional complaints process that dragged its heels on resolving antisemitism cases.

The Panorama program was dismal even by the low standards of political reporting set by the BBC in the Corbyn era.

The show made much of the testimony of pro-Israel lobbyists inside the Labour party belonging to a group called the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM). They were not identified – either by name or by affiliation – despite being given the freedom to make anecdotal and unspecified claims of antisemitism against Corbyn and his supporters.

The BBC’s decision not to name these participants had nothing to do with protecting their identities, even though that was doubtless the impression conveyed to the audience.

Most were already known as Israel partisans because they had been exposed in a 2017 four-part al-Jazeera undercover documentary called The Lobby. They were filmed colluding with an Israeli embassy official, Shai Masot, to bring down Corbyn. The BBC did not identify these pro-Israel activists presumably because they had zero credibility as witnesses.

One-sided coverage

Nonetheless, a seemingly stronger case – at least, at the time – was made by the eight former Labour staff. Their testimonies to the BBC suggested they had been hampered and bullied by Corbyn’s team as they tried to stamp out antisemitism.

Panorama allowed these claims to go unchallenged, even though with a little digging it could have tapped sources inside Labour who were already compiling what would become the leaked report, presenting a very different view of these self-styled “whistleblowers”.

The BBC also failed to talk to Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL), a group of Labour party members supportive of Corbyn who challenged the way the Jewish Labour Movement had manipulated the definition of antisemitism in the party to harm Palestinian solidarity activists.

And the BBC did not call as counter-witnesses any of the anti-Zionist Jews who were among the earliest victims of the purge of supposed antisemites by Labour’s apparent “whistleblowers”.

Instead, it selectively quoted from an email by Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s chief adviser, to suggest that he had interfered in the disciplinary process to help antisemites avoid suspension.

Proper context from the BBC would have revealed that Milne had simply expressed concern at how the rule book was being interpreted when several Jews had been suspended for antisemitism – and that he had proffered his view only because a staff member now claiming to be a whistleblower had asked for it.

This section of the Panorama show looked suspiciously like entrapment of Milne by Labour staff, followed by collusion from the BBC in promoting their false narrative.

Flawed reporting

Despite these and many other serious flaws in the Panorama episode, it set the tone for subsequent discussion of the “antisemitism problem” in Labour.

The program aired a few months before a general election, last December, that Corbyn lost to Boris Johnson and the ruling Conservative party.

One of the key damaging, “gotcha” moments of the campaign was an interview with the veteran BBC interviewer Andrew Neil in which he repeatedly asked Corbyn to apologize for antisemitism in the party, as had been supposedly exposed by Panorama. Corbyn’s refusal to respond directly to the question left him looking evasive and guilty.

With the rest of the media amplifying the Panorama claims rather than testing them, it has become the accepted benchmark for judging the Corbyn era. The show has even been nominated for a Bafta award, the British equivalent to an Oscar.

Shortly after the program aired, Corbyn’s team disputed the Panorama narrative, saying it had contained “deliberate and malicious misrepresentations designed to mislead the public”. They also described the “whistleblowers” as disaffected former staff with “political axes to grind”.

Ware and seven of the former staff members who appeared in the program launched a defamation action against the Labour party.

After the internal report was leaked in April, the legal scales tipped decisively in Labour’s favor. Starmer was reportedly advised by lawyers that the party would be well-positioned to defeat the legal action and clear Corbyn and the party’s name.

But again Starmer preferred to fold. Before the case could be tested in court, Starmer issued an apology last week to the ex-staff members and Ware, and paid them a six-figure sum in damages.

Admitting that “antisemitism has been a stain on the Labour Party in recent years”, the statement accepted the claims of the ex-staff to be “whistleblowers”, even capitalizing the word to aggrandize their status.

It said: “We acknowledge the many years of dedicated and committed service that the Whistleblowers have given to the Labour Party … We unreservedly withdraw all allegations of bad faith, malice and lying.”

Threat of bankruptcy

With typical understatement, Corbyn said he was “disappointed” at the settlement, calling it a “political decision, not a legal one”. He added that it “risks giving credibility to misleading and inaccurate allegations about action taken to tackle antisemitism in the Labour party in recent years.”

Starmer’s decision also preempted – and effectively nullified – the Forde inquiry, which was due to submit its own findings on antisemitism in Labour later in the year.

Many in the party were infuriated that their membership dues had been used to pay off a group of ex-staff who, according to the leaked report, had undermined the party’s elected leader and helped to throw a general election.

But in what looked disturbingly like a move to silence Corbyn, Ware said he was consulting lawyers once again about launching a legal battle, personally against the former Labour leader, over his criticism of the settlement.

Mark Lewis, the solicitor acting for Ware and the whistleblowers, has said he is also preparing an action for damages against Labour on behalf of 32 individuals named in the leaked report. Among them is Lord Iain McNichol, who served as the party’s general secretary at the time.

Lewis reportedly intends to focus on staff privacy breaches under the Data Protection Act, disclosure of private information and alleged violations of employment law.
Conversely, Mark Howell, a Labour party member, has initiated an action against Labour and McNichol seeking damages for “breach of contract”. He demands that those named in the leaked report be expelled from the party.

He is also reported to be considering referring named staff members to the Crown Prosecution Service under the 2006 Fraud Act for their failure to uphold the interests of party members who paid staff salaries.

This spate of cases threatens to hemorrhage money from the party. There have been warnings that financial settlements, as well as members deserting the party in droves, could ultimately bankrupt Labour.

Corbyn to be expelled?

Within days of the apology, a crowdfunding campaign raised more than £280,000 for Corbyn to clear his name in any future legal actions.

Given his own self-serving strategy, Starmer would doubtless be embarrassed by such a move. There are already rumors that he is considering withdrawing the party whip from Corbyn – a form of exile from the party.

Pressure on him to do so is mounting. At the weekend it was reported that ex-staff might drop the threatened case over the embarrassing revelations contained in the leaked report should Starmer expel Corbyn.

Quoting someone it described as a “well-placed source”, the Mail on Sunday newspaper set out the new stakes. “Labour says they have zero tolerance to anti-Semitism. Zero tolerance means no Corbyn and no Corbynistas,” the source said.

There are already reports of what amounts to a purge of left-wing members from Labour.
Starmer has committed to upholding “10 Pledges” produced by the Board of Deputies – a conservative Jewish leadership organization hostile to Corbyn and the left – that places it and the pro-Israel lobbyists of the Jewish Labour Movement in charge of deciding what constitutes antisemitism in the party.

Selective concern

Starmer’s decision about who can serve in his shadow cabinet is a reminder that the storm over Corbyn was never about real antisemitism – the kind that targets Jews for being Jews.
It was a pretext to be rid of the Corbyn project and democratic socialism.

Starmer quickly pushed out the last two prominent Corbynites in his shadow cabinet – both on matters related to criticism of Israel.

By contrast, he has happily indulged the kind of antisemitism that harms Jews as long as it comes from members of his shadow cabinet who are not associated with Corbyn.

Starmer picked Rachel Reeves for his team, even though earlier this year she tweeted a tribute to Nancy Astor, a supporter of Hitler and notorious antisemite. Reeves has refused to delete the tweet.

And Steve Reed is still the shadow communities secretary, even though this month he referred to a Jewish newspaper tycoon, Richard Desmond, as a “puppet master” – the very definition of an antisemitic trope.

Starmer’s “zero tolerance” appears to be highly selective – more concerned about harsh criticism of a state, Israel, than the othering of Jews. Tellingly, Starmer has been under no serious pressure from the Jewish Labour Movement, or from the media or from Jewish leadership organizations such as the Board of Deputies to take any action against either Reeves or Reed.

He has moved swiftly against leftists in his party who criticize Israel but has shrugged his shoulders at supposed “moderates” who, it could be argued, have encouraged or glorified hatred and suspicion of Jews.

But then the antisemitism furor was never about safeguarding Jews. It was about creating a cover story as the establishment protected itself from democratic socialism.

Jonathan Cook won the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His books include “Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East” (Pluto Press) and “Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair” (Zed Books). His website is www.jonathan-cook.net. (vreemd genoeg kom je door klikken uit op de site van Middle East Online >> MEO, door daar eerst op de ‘knop’ home te klikken en daarna op de volgende pagina zijn naam op het zoekvlak in te voeren, krijg je artikeln van Cook te zien, echter niet het bovenstaande artikel, hier de directe link naar de site van Jonathan Cook, waar je dit artikel wel kan vinden)
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Zie ook:

‘BBC heeft Corbyn afgemaakt als antisemiet, terwijl het zelf al jaren een racistische serie uitzendt…….‘

 ‘Verkiezingen Groot-Brittannië: de lastercampagne van de afhankelijke BBC en andere massamedia tegen Corbyn heeft gewonnen………‘

 ‘Verkiezingen in Groot-Brittannië gemanipuleerd door de massamedia‘

‘Jackie Walker, een joods journalist, spreekt over de met beschuldigingen van antisemitisme gevoede heksenjacht op Labour en haarzelf‘ (ook van belang voor dit bericht)

‘Opperrabbijn Mirvis besmeurt Labour vlak voor verkiezingen, over het ongeoorloofd beïnvloeden van verkiezingen gesproken‘

 ‘Boris Johnson vs. Jeremy Corbyn en de massamedia‘

 ‘Niet Rusland maar Trump beïnvloedt nu al de verkiezingen in Groot-Brittannië‘

 ‘Jeremy Corbyn, de Britse Labourleider zal en moet vallen: hij neemt het op voor het arme deel van de bevolking‘

 ‘Gedreven politicus zet BBC presentator te kakken die Labour de schuld wilde geven van de armoede in GB‘

 ‘Honger in GB anno 2019: uitsterfbeleid voor werklozen en andere arme Britten >> velen krijgen geen voedselhulp‘

 ‘Britse kinderen lijden anno 2018 honger, vooral in de vakanties…….‘

En zie voorts:
‘Israëlische rechter wijst directeur Human Rights Watch het totaal absurde ‘democratische’ land uit‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht, anders dan de hier getoonde)

 ‘Israël steelt Palestijnse grond, als ‘vergoeding krijgen’ Palestijnen traangas, made in USA‘

 ‘Mike Pompeo (VS minister van BuZa): nederzettingen op de West Bank gaan niet per se in tegen internationale rechtsregels‘

 ‘Een volk dat leeft onder bezetting heeft het recht gewapend verzet te plegen, ook het Palestijnse volk‘ (je zou zelfs kunnen zeggen dat een ieder die onder illegale bezetting leeft, de plicht heeft verzet te plegen, denk daarbij ook aan de nazi-Duitse bezetting van Nederland tijdens WOII; de link naar dat bericht op Facebook werd overigens door deze organisatie geblokkeerd….)

 ‘Al wat nog over is zijn hun schooluniformen: Israël vermoordt 8 Palestijnen‘

 ‘“Israël heeft afgelopen nacht in de Gazastrook opnieuw luchtaanvallen uitgevoerd op terreurorganisatie Islamitische Jihad…” ahum….‘

 ‘Israëlische ‘Friends Tweet’ komt als een boemerang terug met de gruwelen die Israël begaat tegen het verdrukte Palestijnse volk‘


Voor meer berichten over antisemitisme, Corbyn of Labour, klik op het desbetreffende label, direct onder dit bericht.

Boris Johnson neemt wraak: de BBC moet nog meer naar rechts draaien door verzelfstandiging en verdwijnen radiozenders

Posted on by Telmo Claro
Alsof de BBC links is en onafhankelijk bericht, zo zou je de nieuwe stap van opperploert Boris Johnson kunnen zien: de BBC moet afslanken en wordt in feite gedwongen om op een andere manier aan geld te komen dan de ‘kijk- en luistergelden’ die men nu in Groot-Brittannië moet betalen.
Het is duidelijk dat e.e.a. is ingegeven door het verzet van de BBC tegen de Brexit, iets dat Johnson blijkbaar flink heeft gestoken en zoals het psychopathische kleuterpolitici als hemzelf en Trump betaamt: wraak nemen op degenen die het tegen hen heeft durven opnemen…….
In feite een nogal domme zet van Johnson, daar de BBC is verworden tot een rechtse omroep die volkomen afhankelijk zowel de neoliberale status quo, als de illegale oorlogen steunt die de VS onderneemt, waarbij Groot-Brittannië deze oorlogen (grootschalige terreur) meestal van meet af aan politiek steunt en waaraan het land bovendien deelneemt…… Kortom de BBC brengt vooral nieuws en actualiteiten in het belang van Johnson en de rest van de zogenaamde Conservatieve Partij (een inhumaan neoliberaal grofgraai zootje)
Maar aan deze zaak zitten meerdere kanten, immers als de BBC de commercie moet binnenhalen, zal het ook op die manier rekening moeten houden met de grote reclame kopers en bedrijven die programma’s helpen aan financiering. Bedrijven die belang hebben bij het behoud van de neoliberale ‘waarden’ en bij het voeren van oorlog…… Wat betreft oorlog, daarin hebben een groot aantal bedrijven een belang: als eerste de wapenindustrie in de ruimste zin van het woord, dus inclusief de fabricage van rollend, varend en vliegend oorlogstuig. Dan zijn er nog de oliemaatschappijen, immers door oorlog stijgt de behoefte aan brandstoffen……..
Daarnaast zijn er nog te toeleveranciers van de voornoemde takken van industrie, maar zijn er nog meer bedrijven te bedenken die belang hebben bij oorlog, zoals aannemers die de in elkaar geschoten boel moeten herbouwen of herstellen, deze bedrijven moeten dan vaak weer een beroep doen op de financiële wereld voor investeringen…….. Kijk en daarbij hebben banken e.d. weer een groot belang…… Daarover gesproken, de financiële wereld: uiteraard hebben ook een enorm aantal (groot-) aandeelhouders belang bij oorlog, zoals ze ook ‘belang hebben bij het verkankeren’ van ons aller aarde (en bij zo min mogelijk personeel in bedrijven….)….
De meeste westerse mediaorganen klagen ach en wee over het voorstel van Johnson t.a.v. de BBC, alsof de BBC niet al lang afhankelijk is van de Britse regering en een gigantisch aantal fake news (nepnieuws) berichten heeft gebracht waarmee het publiek werd en wordt belazerd en/of gemanipuleerd, neem alleen al de berichtgeving over de illegale oorlogen van de VS, die zoals gezegd keer op keer door de Britten zowel politiek els militair worden gesteund……
Eén ding is zeker: de Britten hebben het verlies van (socialist) Jeremy Corbyn één op één te danken aan de BBC, die al een paar jaar lang bij voortduring negatieve artikelen/berichten over hem heeft gepubliceerd/uitgezonden en dat voor 99,9% gebaseerd op leugens en andere desinformatie, zoals de smerige leugen dat Corbyn een antisemiet zou zijn……

Het volgende bericht komt van The Canary en werd geschreven door Ed Sykes, hij gaat verder in op de verrechtsing van de BBC (ten tijde van publicatie was nog niet bekend dat de BBC moet verzelfstandigen en fiks moet afslanken):

Veteran reporter shows exactly why the BBC is so close to imploding

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John Simpson has been with the BBC for around 53 years. And one comment from him helps us to see why the BBC is facing potential destruction.

People now see through the BBC‘s subtle bias

The BBC‘s anti-left bias has gone into overdrive in recent years. Sometimes it’s right in your face. Sometimes it’s more subtle. But it’s there. And now, there may be an even greater shift to the right at the public broadcaster with the replacement of its director-general. This potential right-wing coup would come at a time of intensifying criticism and action from the left, and after analysis has shown only 44% of Britons now trust BBC News reporters to tell the truth.

Simpson’s comment helped to sum up the ‘pro-establishment’ mindset at the organisation that has brought the BBC to this point.

Speaking about the impressive breakthrough of the left in Ireland’s recent election, Simpson seemed to lament the downfall of the right-wing establishment:

John Simpson ✔ @JohnSimpsonNews

So Ireland, which has been politically stable for decades, has also succumbed to populism now..

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Apart from positively calling the previous situation in the country “politically stable” (despite a number of significant, ongoing crises), he suggested the left was ‘populist’ and Ireland had “succumbed” to it. Both of these words have negative connotations. The BBC itself pointed out previously that the word ‘populism’ is usually a “shorthand political insult”.
The reality was that Irish voters simply saw housing and healthcare crises and wanted sufficient funding to deal with them.

BBC vs moderate progressive change?

The BBC may think that sitting on the fence is an impartial approach. But it’s not. Because being consistently in favour of the status quo is also a form of bias. And it has a dangerous, limiting impact on British democracy.

Britain has suffered from decades of right-wing ideological dominance, which has created extreme inequality. The share of national income that the UK’s ultra-rich receive, for example, has increased significantly since the 1980s. And today, people in the top 1% are “disproportionately male, middle-aged and London-based”.

Such extreme inequality is disastrous for numerous reasons. But sadly, it’s become the norm.

Under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party promoted moderate centre-left policies. One expert called them “common-sense economics”. 163 economists, meanwhile, proudly signed an open letter in 2019 saying the “UK economy needs reform” and that Labour “deserves to form the next government” because it has “serious proposals for dealing with” Britain’s “deep problems”.

The BBC, however, played a prominent role in 2019’s brutal propaganda offensive from the establishment media which helped to sink Corbyn’s party and propel the most hard-right government in decades into power.

Britain’s age gap

The 2019 general election yet again highlighted the generational divide in Britain. Voters over the age of 39 were more likely to vote Tory, and a massive 67% of over-70s opted for Boris Johnson’s Conservatives.

Britain has now lived through four decades of Thatcherism and Thatcherism-lite. And while younger people feel the worst effects of this, older generations benefited from free higher education and greater economic equality.

Older generations also had a much better chance of owning their own homes. They didn’t feel the brunt of the collapse of social housing and the worsening housing crisis. In 2016, for example, home ownership in England was at its lowest level in 30 years – as house prices soared while wage growth was weak and new housing was scarce. As the Bank of England has revealed:

Real house prices in the UK have almost quadrupled over the past 40 years, substantially outpacing real income growth.

Today, people over 65 own around half of the UK’s housing wealth.
It’s hard to believe the BBC represents all Britons when it implicitly favours this status quo.

GE2019: the liberal establishment sank Labour just as much as the Tory Brexit message

Britain’s electoral system is terrible and undemocratic. And Labour has for too long failed to forge an alliance of non-Tories in favour of electoral reform – which could see a ‘progressive majority’ in Britain. Only now do Labour members seem to be waking up to this.

Parties entered the 2019 election under the current electoral system, however. And this favoured the Tories, leaving their opponents on the back foot. As University of East London professor Jeremy Gilbert has written, many centrists preferred not to back Corbyn’s Labour – allowing the united right a landslide victory. Centrist politicians lost in 2019. But many centrist voters “could not be persuaded to accept a compromise on Brexit in order to prevent a Johnson landslide”. The constant media propaganda against Corbyn and his party didn’t help, either. In the end, opposing the hard-right Tory agenda simply wasn’t important enough to the extreme centre.

Labour’s economic policies were very popular across Britain. But in an election where Brexit dominated, Labour’s compromise policy was a mistake. And a mixture of our putrid electoral system and elitist media establishment sealed the deal.

The BBC cannot escape responsibility for the 2019 result. Impartiality is a noble goal; but the BBC failed miserably on that measure. An objective, public-owned media, where the facts do all the talking, is massively important for a democracy to succeed. That’s not the BBC today, though. And John Simpson’s latest comment is a perfect example of how the broadcaster is currently stuck in a destructive, pro-establishment quagmire. Without urgent change, the BBC won’t survive much longer.

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May treedt af op 7 juni a.s.: naar aanleiding van de EU verkiezingen?

Posted on by Telmo Claro

De Britse premier en oorlogsmisdadiger May maakt vanmorgen huilend aan dat ze zal aftreden….. Met de gebruikelijke hysterische uithalen in haar spreken stelde ze haar best te hebben gedaan de Brexit in juiste banen te leiden, waar ze gisteren NB stelde een tweede referendum te overwegen…..

De resultaten van de verkiezingen in Groot-Brittannië, op basis van een ‘exit poll’, zijn niet gegeven en we zullen tot zondag moeten wachten op de uitslag, echter de peilingen gaven aan dat de nieuwe partij van Farage, de Brexit Party, groter zal worden dan de Tory Party en de Labour Party samen….. Ofwel: een nieuw referendum zal naar grote waarschijnlijkheid met een nog grotere meerderheid van de Britten voor de Brexit aflopen…..

Gezien het voorgaande is het inderdaad beter dat May zo snel mogelijk aftreedt, immers al het gedoe over de Brexit heeft in tegenstelling tot wat de reguliere media melden*, blijkbaar nog meer mensen over de streep getrokken om voor de Brexit te stemmen……

Ach ja, laat ik niet vergeten dat het voorgaande berust op peilingen, zoals gezegd zondag zullen we het weten.

* De reguliere (massa-) media zouden onafhankelijk zijn, echter deze media hebben zich laten zien als grote tegenstanders van de Brexit, dezelfde media die keer op keer stellen dat Rusland verkiezingen in het buitenland manipuleert, terwijl ze zelf niet anders doen dan de bevolking bespelen en dat maar al te vaak op basis van leugens en diverse vormen van nepnieuws (fake news)…….. Sterker nog: deze media hebben ook de uitslag van het Brexit-referendum toegeschreven aan Russische manipulaties….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Om nog maar te zwijgen over de Trump administratie, die de Britten meermaals heeft opgeroepen uit de EU te stappen…..

Zie ook:
‘Grenfell Tower brand 14 juni 2017: Britse brandweer stelt dat het zo weer kan gebeuren‘

‘Gedreven politicus zet BBC presentator te kakken die Labour de schuld wilde geven van de armoede in GB‘

‘May (Britse premier) treedt af: de valse tranen van politiek en reguliere media‘

‘Theresa May: Nasty piece of work sad she won’t get paid to ruin lives anymore‘

‘Honger in GB anno 2019: uitsterfbeleid voor werklozen en andere arme Britten >> velen krijgen geen voedselhulp‘

‘Britse kinderen lijden anno 2018 honger, vooral in de vakanties…….‘

Anti-Corbyn boek valt door de mand als valse aanklacht >> schrijver duikt onder…….

Posted on by Telmo Claro

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
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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.
Featured image via YouTube – GMB and YouTube – Sky News

Zie ook:
‘Corbyn als schietschijf voor het Britse leger, reactie Tories: Corbyn is een groot gevaar voor Brittannië……‘


‘Antisemitische heksenjacht in GB bedoeld om pro-Palestijnse Labour politici de mond te snoeren‘

‘Esther Voet (Nieuw Israëlitisch Weekblad) ‘maakt grap’: ze vertrekt naar Israël vanwege groeiend antisemitisme……‘

 ‘The Guardian weigert brief van meer dan 200 Joodse vrouwen, waar dit medium loog en blijft liegen over ‘antisemitisme’ Corbyn‘

 ‘Jeremy Corbyn weggezet als nazi in fake news ‘antisemitisme schandaal’ >> haatzaaien met een ‘groter doel’‘

‘Israël bewijst nogmaals fascistisch te zijn >> journalist met kritiek wacht gevangenisstraf……‘

 ‘Esther Voet (hoofdredacteur Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad) over ‘antisemitisme’‘

 ‘Jeremy Corbyn (Labour en oppositie leider GB) veegt de vloer aan met vertrekkende ‘centrum’ Labour fractieleden‘







Daar Corbyn vooral voor antisemiet wordt uitgemaakt, nog wat links naar dat onderwerp:

‘Kritiek op Israël wordt door een leger van Israëlische trollen bevochten‘

‘Israël misbruikt de aanslag op de synagoge in Pittsburgh voor demonisering van steun aan de Palestijnen…….‘

‘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‘

Jeremy Corbyn weggezet als nazi in fake news ‘antisemitisme schandaal’ >> haatzaaien met een ‘groter doel’

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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.


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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:
‘Corbyn als schietschijf voor het Britse leger, reactie Tories: Corbyn is een groot gevaar voor Brittannië……‘

‘Antisemitische heksenjacht in GB bedoeld om pro-Palestijnse Labour politici de mond te snoeren‘

‘Esther Voet (Nieuw Israëlitisch Weekblad) ‘maakt grap’: ze vertrekt naar Israël vanwege groeiend antisemitisme……‘

‘The Guardian weigert brief van meer dan 200 Joodse vrouwen, waar dit medium loog en blijft liegen over ‘antisemitisme’ Corbyn‘

‘Anti-Corbyn boek valt door de mand als valse aanklacht >> schrijver duikt onder……‘

‘Esther Voet (hoofdredacteur Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad) over ‘antisemitisme’‘

‘Jeremy Corbyn (Labour en oppositie leider GB) veegt de vloer aan met vertrekkende ‘centrum’ Labour fractieleden‘







Daar Corbyn vooral voor antisemiet wordt uitgemaakt, nog wat links naar dat onderwerp:

‘Kritiek op Israël wordt door een leger van Israëlische trollen bevochten‘

‘Israël misbruikt de aanslag op de synagoge in Pittsburgh voor demonisering van steun aan de Palestijnen…….‘

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‘Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen‘

Jeremy Corbyn (Labour en oppositie leider GB) veegt de vloer aan met vertrekkende ‘centrum’ Labour fractieleden

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De 7 zogenaamd geëmotioneerde Labour leden, die de ‘moeilijke keus’ moesten maken te vertrekken daar ze het niet eens zijn met Corbyns meer socialistische benadering van sociaaldemocratische politiek bedrijven, werden met een figuurlijke openbare schop onder de bips door Corbyn fijntjes gedag gezegd.

Volkomen terecht wijst Corbyn op de desastreuze situatie waar enorm veel Britten in verkeren, vergeet bijvoorbeeld niet dat dagelijks zo’n 4 miljoen Britse kinderen met honger naar school gaan, waar ze hun eerste maaltijd ontvangen, daar de neoliberale schoftenclub May (‘de dancing queen…’ ha! ha! ha!), die veel van het werkloos maakte, de ouders niet meer geld wensen te geven, zodat ze hun kinderen zelf kunnen voeden, daar men die ouders niet vertrouwt……..
Corbyn wijst er voorts fijntjes op dat Labour onder hem in 2017 een verkiezingswinst behaalde die voor het laatst in 1945 werd gehaald. Een teken dat de kiezers achter het gekozen beleid van Corbyn staan, ofwel deze 7 griezels stellen geen belang in het volk dat voor Labour koos in 2017….. (o.a. veel jongeren; bemoedigend)
Baantjes jagers, zoals deze 7 ex-Labour leden, die uit zijn op persoonlijke zaken als macht en geld, horen niet in een partij die zegt de belangen van het volk te behartigen…..

Vanmiddag sprak men op Radio1, in een achterlijk programma van BNNVARA, al over een splitsing in de Labour Party, dit daar er 7 leden van een enorme fractie opstapten en een eigen partij gaan opzetten, er blijven dan ook nog 249 Labour fractieleden over in het Lagerhuis…… Wat een splitsing……..
Tot slot nog dit: de massamedia in GB van de commerciëlen tot de publieke zendgemachtigden zien het als hun taak Corbyn zo zwart mogelijk te maken, tja veronderstel dat men eens echt gaat regeren als volksvertegenwoordiging, daaraan hebben de regering voor de publieke zendgemachtigden en de eigenaren van de commerciële media en bedrijven die via hun medium reclame maken, bepaald geen behoefte……. Vandaar ook de hysterie rond ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws) waarvan men de alternatieve media beschuldigd, immers deze media hebben al lang geleden gezien dat de reguliere media hun onafhankelijkheid kwijt zijn en er geen moeite mee hebben fake news en andere desinformatie te verspreiden…….

Het volgende artikel werd eerder gepubliceerd door The Canary en werd geschreven door Tracy Keeling:

In just four lines, Jeremy Corbyn blows the lid off the ‘tough choice’ made by Labour’s quitters

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Tracy Keeling
18th February 2019
Afbeeldingsresultaat voor In just four lines, Jeremy Corbyn blows the lid off the ‘tough choice’ made by Labour’s quitters
Seven Labour MPs made the ‘tough choice’ to resign from their party on 18 February. As one of them, Chris Leslie, explained, they can no longer “in all conscience… support a government led by Jeremy Corbyn or the team around him”.
Corbyn’s response, however, provided some important context to their exit. Because it shows exactly what, and who, this small group of MPs is really turning its back on.
United we stand
The Labour leader began by reminding the MPs why they’re even in the position to resign:

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I am disappointed that these MPs have felt unable to continue to work together for the Labour policies that inspired millions at the last election and saw us increase our vote by the largest share since 1945.

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11:49 – 18 Feb 2019
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As Corbyn said, Labour saw its biggest voteshare increase since 1945 in the 2017 general election. The support Corbyn’s Labour attracted, which defied early predictions, resulted in a hung parliament. So, by turning their backs on Labour at this moment, these MPs are also rejecting the will of the people who put them in their current position.
Meanwhile, as the Labour leader stated, these Labour leavers are effectively renouncing the policies that garnered people’s votes. Corbyn laid out what some of these are:

Jeremy Corbyn

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I am disappointed that these MPs have felt unable to continue to work together for the Labour policies that inspired millions at the last election and saw us increase our vote by the largest share since 1945.

Jeremy Corbyn

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Labour won people over on a programme for the many not the few – redistributing wealth and power, taking vital resources into public ownership, investing in every region and nation, and tackling climate change.

However, although they’re in parliament on the back of a manifesto which promised such things, it’s not surprising that this group isn’t sticking around to secure them. One of the leavers, Chuka Umunna, for example, has a reputation for flip-flopping on policy in the interests of his own career. In fact, the group is largely made up of so-called ‘centrists’ – meaning they don’t veer far from the status quo – rather than supporters of the socialist programme Corbyn’s Labour is offering.
Finally, Corbyn highlighted the importance of unity in the current UK climate:

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Replying to @jeremycorbyn
Labour won people over on a programme for the many not the few – redistributing wealth and power, taking vital resources into public ownership, investing in every region and nation, and tackling climate change.

Jeremy Corbyn

✔@jeremycorbyn

The Tories are bungling Brexit while Labour has set out a unifying and credible alternative plan. When millions face the misery of Universal Credit, rising crime, homelessness and poverty, now more than ever is the time to bring people together to build a better future for us all

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11:49 – 18 Feb 2019

Of course, since Corbyn became leader in 2015, ‘togetherness’ hasn’t appeared a priority for a number of Labour MPs. In fact, MPs like Umunna and Leslie have regularly attacked their own leadership. That’s despite the fact there are lots of issues they should unite behind, like tackling homelessness and poverty, as Corbyn said.
God speed, mo-fos
So, there you have it. These seven MPs can claim they’re taking a stand against Corbyn with these resignations. But in quitting the party, they’re turning their backs on the millions who voted for Labour; the manifesto that attracted those votes; and the people who need these MPs to spend their energies fighting ‘for the many’ right now.
That’s not so much a ‘tough choice’ but a selfish one and it’s the foundation of their political futures. Good luck attracting support for that at the next election they face.

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Daar Corbyn vooral voor antisemiet wordt uitgemaakt, nog wat links naar dat onderwerp:

‘Kritiek op Israël wordt door een leger van Israëlische trollen bevochten‘

‘Israël misbruikt de aanslag op de synagoge in Pittsburgh voor demonisering van steun aan de Palestijnen…….‘

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‘Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen‘

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving, krijg het niet op orde.