In a defamatory article for Bristol student rag @TheTab, their features editor @SabriSun_Miller demands the university fires Bristol professor David Miller (@Tracking_Power) for making "controversial comments about Israel" which make her "uncomfortable".
Poisonous McCarthyism.
I refuse to link to her article because it's honestly pure trash. Full of the usual lies about supposed left-wing anti-Semitism. With an extra CampusWatch-style McCarthyist twist, which is quite chilling.
According to @SabriSun_Miller, the idea that a Zionist movement exists is "invented" -- perhaps she should try telling the Zionist Federation and their many affiliates (such as the @JewishLabour Movement) that they are "invented" and see how that goes.
According to @tonylerman, the founder of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (who used to work closely with the CST) CST volunteers have even received training from Israel's overseas spy agency the Mossad: electronicintifada.net/content/ei-exc…
Their editor @SabriSun_Miller lies, smearing David Miller as "anti-Semitic" (presenting no evidence of such), demands he's fired and asks blackface TV stars David Baddiel and Sacha Baron-Cohen to retweet her.
Nasty stuff.
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The hidden toll of Labour's manufactured anti-Semitism "crisis" on left-wing Jews:
One "has taken an overdose following expulsion from the party. 'Notices of Investigation' sent to party members include a telephone number for the Samaritans." middleeasteye.net/big-story/labo…
George Wilmers says his mistreatment by Labour is antisemitism: "I have been targeted as a Jew by fanatical persons who hold that political support for the ethnocratic nature of the actually existing state of Israel is an essential characteristic of being Jewish."
After being apparently reported to the party by London Assembly candidate and JLM activist @mrwtch, retired QC Stephen Solley is defiant: "If they really want to expel the Jewish former chair of the Bar Human Rights Committee, so be it."
NEW: A group of leading Palestinian citizens of Britain have written to the Labour Party insisting on their right to oppose Zionism, and insisting it's racist to say they can't: electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…
Will @jeremycorbyn support this British Palestinian call to end the "shrinking space" for their rights in the Labour Party?
It's been more than a week and @jeremycorbyn still hasn't said a word about this open letter by British Palestinians (including a former Labour councillor) objecting to their censorship by the Labour Party electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…
Just got off the phone with one of the @Pal_action activists holding a sit-in on the roof of the Shenstone factory owned by Israeli drone maker @ElbitSystemsLtd.
This small group has managed to shutter this death-factory for three days running now! Direct action works.
.@ElbitSystemsLtd market their weapons as “field-tested” on Palestinian civilians in Gaza
The activists are demanding "all Elbit Systems sites to be shut down in the UK, and an end to UK complicity with Israeli apartheid".
The activist told me that police have been illegally barring protesters gathering outside to express support for the sit-in.
Police have even harassed passers-by who beeped car horns in support! Pulling them over and "pushing and threatening cyclists".
“As I recall, what I actually said was that there is ‘influence wielded over elections by high net-worth individuals.’ I would never blame this on Jewish people.”
The level of fabrication and lies in this sorry story knows no bounds.
It seems it was Labour's anti-Corbyn right who were actually guilty of real anti-Semitism: according to an anonymous student quoted in the Rubin report, right-winger David Klemperer allegedly said to a student: “You’re exactly the sort who should’ve died in the Holocaust”.
This morning the Tory press (The Times) is gleeful over Keir Starmer's ruthless sacking of RLB and predicting "a new era in which Sir Keir exerts near-total control."
They are correct.
Meanwhile, the grassroots is outraged and steadily exiting the party.
What's the official Labour left's response? To beg "Sir Keir" for a meeting & start a petition asking for her job back.
Yea, that'll do it 🙄
If only Corbyn had been as ruthless as "Sir" Keir then the Labour left wouldn't be in this mess. He should have purged the purgers first
More than anything, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Jon Lansman, John McDonnell and -- yes -- even Jeremy Corbyn himself all brought this disaster for the Labour left on themselves.
The moment they bought into the "Labour antisemitism crisis" lies, it was all over.
What we're seeing in the US with the defeat of Israel lobby stalwart Elliot Engel is the result of decades of grassroots organizing for Palestinian rights in the West.
It's part of a wider trend in the collapse of the lobby's bipartisan consensus.
The policy of unquestioned support for Israel by social democrats and liberals is today contested in both the grassroots of both the Democratic and Labour parties.
As one former AIPAC operative -- Eric Gallagher -- admitted in Al Jazeera's censored film, The Lobby -- USA: “The foundation that AIPAC sat on is rotting”.