Here's a few things detailed in my latest article, about Labour conference 🧵👇
Shadow foreign minister @lisanandy was given a massive round of applause by Labour Friends of Israel for undermining the @PSCupdates motion against Israeli apartheid
Addressing Labour Friends of Israel at their annual reception, @lisanandy promised the lobby group she would "always, always, always" stand with them -- and said the Corbyn era was a "nightmare" now ended
Nandy applauded as veteran Israel lobbyist @LouiseEllman boasted that Labour members who oppose Labour Friends of Israel have now "been defeated".
Labour MP & @PeoplesMomentum candidate Charlotte Nichols (@charlotte2153) posed for photos at LFI booth w/ director Michael Rubin -- who you may remember admitted LFI was a front for the Israeli embassy: “publicly we just try to keep the LFI as a separate identity to the embassy”
Labour Friends of Israel's now executive director also admitted in the undercover filming that his group can receive funding from the Israeli embassy:
Another guest of honour at the LFI reception alongside @lisanandy & @LouiseEllman was @OrenMarmorstein, deputy to Israeli ambassador @TzipiHotovely -- a far-right racist who says there is "no Palestinian people," calls for destruction of their villages and wants to invade Jordan
Of course, this was all enthusiastically approved by Labour's right-wing leader @Keir_Starmer, who also immediately undermined the @PSCupdates motion voted through by members, and promised to be star speaker at an LFI lunch in November
In summary, the Israel lobby’s grip on the Labour Party now looks iron-clad. Full article here:
Here's @OwenJones84, yet again, fuelling Labour's McCarthyist purge of socialists and Palestine solidarity activists.
Owen Jones is a willing lackey of the Israel lobby. Thread: 🧵👇
Owen Jones -- as usual -- wants to have it both ways. He claims not to "support" expulsion of @KenLoachSixteen, yet in the same breath implies expulsion was correct -- because a play he directed in 1987 expressed Forbidden Criticism of Zionism (Israel's racist official ideology).
Owen Jones even has the chutzpah to imply @KenLoachSixteen -- who was a socialist when Jones was still in nappies -- is not really even "someone on the left"!
The legal unit of @UKLabour wrote to us demanding censorship of my (totally accurate and uncontested) reporting about their racist anti-Palestinian (and anti-Semitic) officials. We told them where to go:
Breaking: @jeremycorbyn suspended from Labour for his blandly factual statement today: "the scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media"
What a disgrace. But many, many of @jeremycorbyn's supporters warned him since 2016 this day was coming.
Instead he listened to siren voices on the fake left who successfully steered him onto a political suicidal course of indulging the smears.
What a pity.
What this goes to show is what we've been saying all along: it's useless and damaging to indulge these smears and pretend there is a major "anti-Semitism problem" when there isn't one.
Breaking: the EHRC has failed to find Labour "institutionally anti-Semitic" as requested by the @JewishLabour Movement in its referral last year.
Breaking: the EHRC, after a 17-month investigation into alleged institutional anti-Semitism has found only TWO cases of what it says were "unlawful acts" towards Jews.
Here's the *key* quote from the EHRC report: it shows what this deeply compromised pro-Tory body considers to be "anti-Semitic harassment of Jews".
The smear campaign against critics of Israel has always had this insane circular logic.
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.
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."