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It was inevitable that Jewish supporters of Jeremy Corbyn would eventually be purged.
Two of Jeremy Corbyn's most important allies are at each other's throats over Labour's antisemitism problem...
It was inevitable that Jewish supporters of Jeremy Corbyn would eventually be purged.
Two of Jeremy Corbyn's most important allies are at each other's throats over Labour's antisemitism problem...
... Pete Willsman accused Momentum's Jon Lansman of trying to 'kill' him in a ‘semi-public bitch fight’. Lansman says Willsman threatened to 'do him in'....
... Pete Willsman and his comrades believe that the antisemitism storm in the Labour Party is all a lie. He thinks that it is got up by 'Trump supporters' in an effort to smear the left and to silence the voice of the Palestinians. ...
Willsman He relates to Jews in the Party who worry about antisemitism as though they're alien to Labour values. He wants to defend the leader against what his comrades often call an attempt to 'lynch' Corbyn...
...That is the context in which Williamson said the Party is too apologetic; Walker and Wadsworth say the antisemitism scandal is a racist plot against black activists. Livingstone and Galloway seethe,saying that if Corbyn doesn't fight this Zionist conspiracy then he's finished.
... The 'asaJew' Jewish antizionists plug away at their lifelong work of trying to humiliate the Jewish community in its efforts to resist the ongoing normalisation of antisemitism. Like 'African Americans For Trump' they mobilize their own identities for political ends...
... Jon Lansman, is the owner of Momentum, which is the network which is at the heart of keeping Corbyn in power. Lansman himself is responsible for creating and leading the organisation which keeps this antisemitic culture in a position of power in British mainstream politics...
... But Lansman is Jewish and he's not a complete idiot; he has become frightened by the antisemitism of his own movement. So he speaks out against it....
... On the one hand there are the belligerent antisemites, who insist that there is a Jewish conspiracy to pretend that there's antisemitism. These include the influential hard back-room men from the Stalinist Communist Party tradition, Seumas Milne and Andrew Murray...
...On the other hand, there are the soft enablers, people who have been denying the problem for 15 years, people who have been saying that Jews 'weaponize' antisemitism; people who have been saying that hatred of Israel is entirely separate from antisemitism...
... The soft enablers are the people who have leapt to the defence of Jeremy Corbyn every single time mainstream Jews have raised the issue of his antisemitic politics, saying that Jeremy's OK really and this is just a smear....
These are the people who have fantasies about a Corbyn who heals the sick, houses the homeless and feeds the poor but who believe that his support for Brexit, IRA, Hamas, Hezbollah, Chavez, the Iranian revolution, Putin, Assad and all the rest of the dictators and terrorists...
... They believed that Corbyn was anyway on the side of the oppressed... these soft Corbynites believe that Corbyn's actual hard Stalinist politics can be somehow separated from fantasies of a kinder, gentler more just Britain....
... When Lansman and others oppose the antisemitism they find in their own movement then every democrat must support them. We should help efforts to educate people about left antisemitism, how it works, its history, and about the left wing tradition of opposing antisemitism...
But fighting left antisemitism means defeating the whole Corbyn faction. The problem is politics, not organisation. Fighting antisemitism means dismantling and disabling Momentum. Momentum is responsible for putting the most antisemitic movement since Moseley close to no. 10.
