@AsaWinstanley's Threads
I simply do not believe former Guido hack @alexwickham's claim about Dan Carden.
In 2016, when he ("WikiGuido") worked for Guido Fawkes, he lied that the Palestinian Authority ambassador had called Israelis "cancer" -- totally untrue: zelo-street.blogspot.com/2016/09/alex-w…
In 2016, when he ("WikiGuido") worked for Guido Fawkes, he lied that the Palestinian Authority ambassador had called Israelis "cancer" -- totally untrue: zelo-street.blogspot.com/2016/09/alex-w…
When I called bullshit on the Guido Fawkes report at the time (I'd been in the room) Wickham, then a blogger for the hard-right site, tweeted me to bluster that I was a "disgrace" -- but he didn't attempt to defend his false report about "antisemitism" at Labour conference.
Guido still has the false report up at its site -- but what else is new? Pretty much everything on that site should be considered suspect until proven otherwise.
The Jewish Chronicle is a right-wing, racist, anti-Palestinian publication, which constantly spews lies and defamation against Palestinians and their supporters 🚮
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Atrocity denial: In Aug 2015 the Jewish Chronicle called the Zionist militias' infamous April 1948 massacre in Deir Yassin, Palestine an "alleged killing" archive.is/UpxBz
Lies: In 2014 the Jewish Chronicle was forced to correct a piece which had misquoted the Palestine Solidarity Campaign's director smearing the movement as antisemitic middleeastmonitor.com/20141023-jewis…
"Labour is a political home for Zionists and anti-Zionists" -- Labour is a political home for both racists and anti-racists. This is a circle that can't be squared long term.
Labour's new "No Place For Antisemitism" website and leaflet is littered with misinformation. THREAD:
Labour's new "No Place For Antisemitism" website and leaflet is littered with misinformation. THREAD:
The site gives undeserved legitimacy to Israel's bogus "working definition" of antisemitism -- a document endorsed by modern day European Nazis: electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…
The worst part of the site is this: "for many Jews, Zionism represents national liberation" -- Zionism is in fact a settler-colonial project which was always open about its aim to "transfer" the Palestinians out of Palestine.
My thread on last night's #Panorama -- a deeply dishonest programme, repeating the same old lies about the manufactured Labour antisemitism "crisis".
Lies about Ken Livingstone, lies about Jackie Walker, lies about Raed Salah. Lies about practically everything.
Lies about Ken Livingstone, lies about Jackie Walker, lies about Raed Salah. Lies about practically everything.
#Panorama's hatchet job featured a veritable who's who of the right-wing, anti-Corbyn, anti-Palestinian cadres that've driven this fake crisis all along.
Yet *none* of these affiliations were disclosed in the programme. Some of these "brave whistle blowers" were not even named!
Yet *none* of these affiliations were disclosed in the programme. Some of these "brave whistle blowers" were not even named!
Examples:
* Ella Rose, former Israeli embassy officer and current JLM exec. Unnamed by #Panorama while appearing as "whistleblower". electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…
* Ella Rose, former Israeli embassy officer and current JLM exec. Unnamed by #Panorama while appearing as "whistleblower". electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…
JVL's Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi warned the NEC at conference in 2017 that the party was moving towards thought crime because of the antisemitism "crisis".
Unfortunately she was proven correct.
Unfortunately she was proven correct.
Here's Faiza Shaheen's Tweet accusing Pete Willsman of thought crime.
She also misrepresented what Pete Willsman actually said in the tape -- few Labour MPs now seem to care about facts when it comes to the "Labour antisemitism" hysteria.
Showing of "Witch Hunt" due Monday cancelled after complaints "from people who have not seen it," organizers tell me. Neve Gordon: "This is outrageous"
Filmmaker @jonmarkpullman: People should “see the film, and then make their own mind up." witchhuntfilm.org
Filmmaker @jonmarkpullman: People should “see the film, and then make their own mind up." witchhuntfilm.org
Thread of quotes from filmmakers (who've who've actually seen it) on Witch Hunt:
"This impeccably-executed film exposes with chilling accuracy the terrifying threat that now confronts democracy" Mike Leigh (Peterloo, Secrets and Lies, et al)
"This impeccably-executed film exposes with chilling accuracy the terrifying threat that now confronts democracy" Mike Leigh (Peterloo, Secrets and Lies, et al)
"Packs a powerful punch, telling a story we just aren’t hearing at the moment." Peter Kosminsky (Wolf Hall, The Promise)
For Israel to exist it was necessary for the Zionist militias to expel more than 750,000 Palestinians for the crime of not being Jewish. If that's not a "racist endeavour," then the term means nothing.
The Zionist movement, led by the so-called "labor Zionists," understood this very well and had planned the ethnic cleansing for decades before it took place in 1947-49. They euphenistically called it "transfer".
You can read all about this in Palestinian scholar Nur Masalha's seminal book "Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of 'Transfer' in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948". The Nakba was no accident of history.
Anti-Zionist and Jewish Holocaust survivor Hajo Meyer in his last ever in 2014: "If we want to stay really human beings, we must get up and call the Zionists what they are: Nazi criminals" electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nie…
It's not language I would personally use. But you can't reasonably claim it's anti-Semitic for a Jewish survivor of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz to find parrallels between Palestinian oppression and his oppression.
Hajo Meyer was a moral giant with more integrety in his little finger than a million lilly-livered "pro-Corbyn" blue ticks throwing yet another left-wing Labour member under the bus while they appear on Newsnight.
Marget Hodge's chosen law firm to fight Labour's investigation of her allegedly abusive attack on Corbyn has long standing links to the state of Israel. Check our reporting on the Israeli cases Mishcon de Reya has taken on in the UK: electronicintifada.net/tags/mishcon-d…
Margaret Hodge's law firm Mishcon de Reya has in the past:
* Wanted to get an injuction to shut down Palestine solidarity protests against Ahava, Israeli cosmetics store that once peddled stolen Palestinian natural resources.
* Wanted to get an injuction to shut down Palestine solidarity protests against Ahava, Israeli cosmetics store that once peddled stolen Palestinian natural resources.
Margaret Hodge's law firm Mishcon de Reya has in the past:
* Acted for the Israeli embassy and notorious war criminal Ariel Sharon in a PCC complaint against an unflattering Independent cartoon
* Acted for the Israeli embassy and notorious war criminal Ariel Sharon in a PCC complaint against an unflattering Independent cartoon
A warning to Labour activists on what to expect to happen next in the Labour “anti-Semitism crisis” witch hunt. Plus how this sabotage can be defeated.
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Something the right & pro-Israel groups are going to try at some point -probably as a final resort - is to manufacture what they’ll claim is an “exodus of Jewish members” from Labour.
Expect a group of high profile right-wing and/or pro-Israel MPs, councillors or members to resign from Labour in protest. Don’t fall for this.
