Zionist plot to
overthrow Corbyn at Labour Executive Committee. Israel & Lobby do NOT decide
our Foreign Policy
Newsletter published on August 29, 2018
(1) Trump and Corbyn:
heavily Jewish MSM is Accuser, Judge & Jury - Israel Shamir
(2) Rabbi Jonathan
Sacks brands Corbyn 'an antisemite' who has “given support to racists,
terrorists and dealers of hate”
(3) Zionists to get
UK Labour's National Executive Committee to force Corbyn to adopt pro-Zionist
policy
(4) Major General
(former Israeli minister) Matan Vilnai threatens Palestinians with a 'Shoah'
i.e. Holocaust
(5) The Palestinian
cause must not be traduced into oblivion by wealthy and powerful circles
(6) Lobby plans to
get IHRA definition of anti-semitism adopted at Labour’s National Executive
Committee
(7) Orban Is a Clever
anti-Semite. Corbyn Is a Stupid One - Haaretz
(8) Jewish Labour
activists defend Corbyn as Israel lobby attacks
(9) Soros-funded J
Street & Project Syndicate make no comment on Corbyn or Lobby
(10) Corbyn wants to
break the grip of tech giants & billionaires on our media
(1) Trump and Corbyn:
heavily Jewish MSM is Accuser, Judge & Jury - Israel Shamir
Trump and Corbyn
And the Russian Warning Over Syria
ISRAEL SHAMIR
AUGUST 26, 2018
As a new military confrontation over Syria is impending,
thought out by Israel, prepared by
the British and executed by the US, the West’s future depends greatly upon two
mavericks, the US President Donald
Trump and the UK Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn. These two men are as different as you can make. One is for
capitalism, another one is a
socialist, but both are considered soft on Russia, at least they do not foam at the mouth hearing Putin’s
name. Both are enemies of Wall
Street and the City, both stand against the Deep State, against NATO, both are enemies of globalism and of
world government. One is a friend of
Israel, another is a friend of Palestine, but both are charged with racism and anti-Semitism.
It is a quaint peculiarity of our time, that anti-Semitism
is considered the great and
unforgivable sin, trading places with Christ Denial. Negative attitude to
Christ-denying Jews had been de rigueur
at its time, and the Church, or its Tribunal, the Inquisition, had tried the charged. Nowadays, the
heavily Jewish MSM is the accuser,
the judge and jury, considering anti-Jewish attitude as a worst sort of racism. The two leaders aren’t
guilty as charged, but the MSM court
dispenses no acquittals.
Racism is indeed an ugly trend (though greed is worse), and
hatred of Jews qua Jews is not nice,
either. (You wouldn’t expect a different
answer from the son of Jewish parents, would you?) Jews are entertaining, clever, cunning,
sentimental and adventurous folk, able
to do things. They can be good, that’s why the Church wants to bring them to Christ. If they were
inherently bad, why bother with their
souls? Are Jews greedy? Everyone would sell his grandma for a fistful of dollars, but only a Jew would
actually deliver, say Jews. Jews tend
to preach and claim high moral ground, but that is a tradition of the Nation of Priests. However,
universalism and non-racism is not their
strong point, and it is amazing that they appointed themselves the judges on racism.
Nazis were against Jews, ergo, Jews are the pukka anti-Nazis,
this is the logic behind the
appointment. It is easier to deal with ethnic or racial categories than with ideas.
However, an easier way can lead to
wrong results, as we shall prove by turning… no, not to bad Netanyahu or Sharon, but to the best of
Jews.
Would you call “a leftist and a liberal” a man who wants to
create a reservation for Blacks, a
separate state for Blacks, to give them the voting rights in this separate state?
A man whose motto was “you are
there; we are here”? Hardly. Depending on his colour, you’d probably describe him a white racist, or a
member of the Nation of Islam. But
for Jews, there are different standards.
The recently demised Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery had
been eulogised royally. Many
Israelis came to part with him before his body was cremated and the ashes spread on
Tel Aviv seashore. Mass media from
all over the world, statesmen, politicians, activists dedicated many words to his memory. A brave man,
a noble spirit, a fighter for peace,
all that was said, and all that was true. But this the most progressive, the most left-liberal man
in the whole of Israel was the
godfather of the Separation Wall; he coined the slogan “you are there; we are here”. He did not want to live
with Arabs in one state. He pushed
for creation of ghetto for non-Jews.
He was fine to visit Arabs, to play chess with Arafat as he
did during the siege; to defend them
if they were mistreated by Jewish lowlifes. But to live with them as equal? No, no
way. Avnery’s attitude was that of
an old-time Boer Nationalist, a Bantustan creator. He would find himself at home with founders of
Rhodesia.
There was a practical and pragmatic reason: Avnery and his
ilk had robbed Palestinians of their
lands and their livelihood in 1948,
expelled them from their homes, corralled them into reservations, and split the booty. They became rich.
They did not want to allow refugees
back and give up the stolen loot, oh no.
Avnery believed peace was possible, for the Arabs should be
grateful if they were left in peace
in their Bantustans. He was for peace with Hamas, for he was sure they also will
gratefully accept keeping what’s
they’ve got.
This is Israeli Left: people who had got enough of Arab
goods, and do not need more.
Avnery’s adversaries weren’t Arabs; they were Jews who
arrived in Palestine at a latter
stage. They didn’t share in the Big Robbery of 1948; they wanted to get something for
themselves.
This is the Israeli Right: people who want to squeeze more
out of Palestinians, even if it
means armed conflict will go on.
The common ground of Israeli Left and Israeli Right is
their unwillingness to give
Palestinians freedom and restore the stolen goods. The difference is that the
Left, wealthy Jews, wanted to leave
Palestinians in peace in their Bantustans. The Right, poorer Jews, want to keep squeezing
Palestinians.
The late Mr Avnery greatly disliked the poorer Jews that
migrated to Palestine after 1948. He
denied they were mistreated by his pals. The talk about Oriental (or Sephardi) Jews
being exploited and abused upon
arrival annoyed him immensely.
He was, however, a very nice man. Regretfully I must admit
that wealthy men looking for peace
(even while keeping their booty) are
more pleasant than poor guys keen on robbing somebody else.
Uri Avnery was one of the best of his kind. But he was not a
liberal, nor a non-racist, neither a
leftist by a long shot. As Ron Unz made a point in his widely read piece on Jews
and Nazis, he was a living example
of a Jew informed by Nazi Germany. He was brought up there; and upon arrival to Palestine, he
joined a fascist terrorist group
that courted Nazi Germany. He wrote in fascist newspapers, he actively participated in ethnic cleansing, and
he freely admitted that.
His attitude to Arabs was similar of Adolf Eichmann to Jews
in 1930s, mutatis mutandis. As Unz
correctly stated, Eichmann was a big fan of Jews and a top liaison with Zionists
at that time. He wanted Jews to
prosper, just not in Germany. Avnery wanted Arabs to prosper, but on the other side of the border.
If he was the best, you can imagine the average of Israeli
Left (Israeli Right is even worse).
The previous leader of Israeli Labour,
Mr Isaac Hertzog, became the head of the Jewish Agency and declared that his main task is to fight “the
plague of mixed marriages”, that is
marriages between Jews and non-Jews. The present leader of Israeli Labour, Avi Gabbay, told a meeting of
party activists that “the Arabs have
to be afraid of us”. He added: “They fire one missile – you fire 20. That’s all they understand in the
Middle East”. He also vowed to never
enter into a coalition with the non-Jewish party (the Joint List, a Knesset group representing
Palestinian citizens).
Such views are totally unacceptable for any mainstream party
in the US or the UK. Probably they
are too radical for KKK, too.
Now sit tight and prepare yourself for a shock. This Israeli
Labour Party, which would be
considered a Nazi party elsewhere, decided to cut ties with Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party for British
Labour is “anti-Semitic”, they said.
It is a shame that Corbyn hasn’t
been the one to take this step
first. If you maintain ties with any Israeli party, you should have no problem to
fraternise with Hollywood Nazis, let
alone the Ku Klux Klan. And Jeremy Corbyn quite correctly compared Zionists with Nazis. Now he is being
skinned alive by British Jews.
They ran the same front page in their three newspapers saying
that Corbyn is an existential threat
to British Jews, because he does not
agree with their definition of anti-Semitism. He is not anti-Jewish, but he doesn’t worship the Jew. And he
is not a Jew. A young British Jewish
Labour voter regretted that Ed Miliband, the Jewish former Labour leader, is not in power, for
“there wouldn’t be Brexit, there
wouldn’t be Jeremy Corbyn, and
we’d just have a lovely Jewish prime
minister.” Isn’t it a racist sentiment? But Jews are pukka anti-racists…
Corbyn had been
trying his best to accommodate the Jews. He expelled his staunch supporters whenever
the Jews demand their heads. He is
going to a compromise after a compromise, he denounced the Jews who stayed with him despite community
pressure. All in vain, because the
Jews care little about definitions, but they are worried about Corbyn’s hostility to banksters, by
his excessive (in their eyes)
sympathy to British workers and by his unwillingness to fight wars for Israel. They can’t say that openly,
that is why they keep pushing
anti-Semitism button hoping to unseat Corbyn and return Blair-2.
My respected friend Jonathan Cook, the great British
journalist based in Nazareth, summed
it up well:
“Besieged for four years, Corbyn has been abandoned. Few
respected politicians want to risk
being cast out into the wilderness, like Ken Livingstone, as an anti-Semite. Corbyn himself has conceded too much ground on anti-semitism. He has tried
to placate rather than defy the
smearers.”
Cook points out that by conceding ground, Corbyn betrayed Palestinians and betrayed anti-Zionist Jews who were
expelled by droves from Labour. Even Tony Greenstein, a Jewish nationalist
though anti-Zionist, had been
expelled; the same Tony Greenstein who attacked me and Gilad Atzmon for our
anti-Semitism (I responded to him here).
He was also sent home packing. The late Hajo Meyer, a Holocaust survivor and defender of Palestinian
rights, a personal friend of Corbyn,
had been denounced. Palestinians were betrayed, and we should care about them more than about Jewish
fine feelings.
But why should we give a damn about Corbyn and/or Palestinians if we aren’t British voters? I’ll tell
you.
In the British establishment, pro-Jewish forces decided to side with the
Washington War Party to push us close to war. The recent visit of the British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt (the man
on the shortlist of Israel’s agents
within the British establishment) to Washington where Hunt delivered a speech calling for full-out war on Russia,
“has been read as an intervention on
the side of the anti-Russian faction in the split and divided US administration”,
said the Guardian.
The speech is just an opening, missiles will follow soon.
Today, I was informed by my
contacts, the Russians have delivered a demarche to the State Department, warning the
Americans to desist from their plans to
attack Syria. Russian intelligence learned that eight tanks containing chlorine have been delivered to Halluz
village of Idlib province where the
group of specially trained militants has already been deployed in order to simulate the rescue of the
victims of chemical attack. The
militants were trained by the British private military company Olive (which had merged with the American
Constellis Group.
The operation, the Russians say, had been planned by the
British intelligence services to
justify an impending airstrike directed
against Syrian military and civil infrastructure. For this strike, USS The Sullivans guided missile destroyer
with 56 cruise missiles onboard
arrived to the Persian Gulf, and the US Air Force bomber B-1B with 24 cruise Air-to-Surface Missiles had
been flown to the Al-Udeid air base
in Qatar.
The idea is Israeli,
the operational plans are British, weapons and vessels are American, and a
possibility for confrontation grows
stronger each day. The success of Corbyn would put a stop to these plans of war. But will he have a
chance?
Ron Unz wrote that the British establishment together with Organised Jewry were able to push unwilling
America into the world wars twice,
and perhaps they will be able to repeat this feat a third time. It seems that the Question of Palestine,
one of the reasons for America’s
entry into the world wars, is likely to unleash another war.
Who is the master
and who is the slave of the two, Organised Jewry or English
establishment? This is the-chicken-and-the-egg dilemma, and there are conflicting answers.
* Indiana University’s Professor of Geography, Mohameden
Ould-Mey provided strong arguments
that English were the Master. I presented his case here.
* The opposing view is that of the late Times correspondent
Douglas Reed, presented in his
Controversy of Zion, a cryptic book. Proponents of both views had been banned beyond marginalizing. You are
just aren’t allowed to ponder
it.
I do not intend to rule who is right; however, the moot area
where the twain intersect is
definitely a trouble spot. Conservative
Friends of Israel and Labour Friends of Israel are the groups within this intersection. Their desire for war
against Russia sends us a powerful
signal of danger.
On the opposing side, there are two intersecting groups: (1)
friends of Palestine, and (2)
opponents of Jews.
The racial and tribal anti-Semites are of little value, for
they are not particularly bright and
are easily misled and manipulated. They do not like Jewish noses, but who
cares?
But people rejecting globalism, rule of the banks,
neoliberalism, impoverishment of
native workers, uprooting, Christ-denial, mass migration and population replacement,
the “invite and invade” mode – are
the core of the resistance. They are called “anti-Semites”, even if they never mention Jews, even if
they are Jewish.
Some people who strongly reject this paradigm prefer to
dismiss a thought of Palestine.
Bannon and his ilk, the British Nationalists never fail to express their admiration
of Israel. It shows they are immoral
and dishonest. As long as you choose between Banksters’ rule and Zionists’ yoke, you will get
both.
Palestine is the heart of the matter. Palestine is why the
Jews want the attack on Syria.
Palestine is the tool allowing us to unmask the racist nature
of our adversary and defeat him.
This is the way to compassion and the way to Christ. If the only escape from
anti-Semitism label leads through
betrayal of Christ and Palestine, I’d rather bear this label with pride.
Trump and Corbyn
are coming to the point from different sides. They are fighting a strong and
well-entrenched adversary. Both are tired, both are full of imperfections, but
they offer us a chance to save our
beautiful world from destruction. It would be silly if they fail for antisemitism scare.
P.S. The first ever trial of a Holocaust Denier in Russia is
taking place now in Perm, the Doctor
Zhivago city. Roman Yushkov, a Perm
University Professor, had been sacked; his social accounts erased, his YouTube presentations removed; there
is practically no publicity at all.
He reposted an article expressing doubt of the amount of Jewish dead, and a local resident of Habad
Chassid House reported him to
authorities. There is no law forbidding H denial in Russia, but there is a law forbidding to cause
interethnic wrangle. The verdict is
expected on September 4. You can write to Prof Yushkov <roman@prpc.ru>
Israel Shamir can be reached at adam@israelshamir.net
This article was first published at The Unz Review.
(2) Rabbi Jonathan
Sacks brands Corbyn 'an antisemite' who has “given support to racists,
terrorists and dealers of hate”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-Corbyn-zionist-enoch-powell-antisemitism-rabbi-jonathan-sacks-labour-jewish-leadership-a8511391.html
Jeremy Corbyn's
'Zionist' comments are most offensive by a senior politician 'since Enoch Powell', says
leading rabbi
August 27, 2018
A former chief rabbi has accused Jeremy Corbyn of the most offensive comments by a senior politician “since
Enoch Powell”, after his criticism
of British “Zionists”.
Jonathan Sacks made the most outspoken attack yet on the
Labour leader, branding him “an
antisemite” who has “given support to
racists, terrorists and dealers of hate”.
“It was divisive, hateful and, like Powell’s speech, it
undermines the existence of an
entire group of British citizens by depicting them as essentially alien,” Lord Sacks
said.
Corbyn accused
over Zionists 'don’t understand English irony' claim The condemnation deepens the crisis
that has engulfed Mr Corbyn since his remarks at a pro-Palestinian event
five years ago emerged last
week.
He criticised “Zionists” who “don’t want to study history,
and secondly, having lived in this
country for a very long time, probably
all their lives, don’t understand English irony either”.
Some Labour MPs reacted with horror, while Helen Grant, the Conservative MP, reported him to the
parliamentary standards watchdog.
Now Mr Sacks has described the words as “the most offensive
statement made by a senior British
politician since Enoch Powell’s 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech”.
“We can only judge Jeremy Corbyn by his words and his actions,”
he told the New Statesman
magazine.
“He has given support to racists, terrorists and dealers of
hate who want to kill Jews and
remove Israel from the map.
“When he implies that, however long they have lived here,
Jews are not fully British, he is
using the language of classic pre-war European antisemitism.”
Mr Corbyn has
defended his comments, insisting that he was referring to a specific group of “pro-Israel
activists” and had not used the term
Zionist as a “euphemism” for Jewish people.
He claimed he was “now more careful with how I might use the
term ‘Zionist’ because a once
self-identifying political term has been
increasingly hijacked by antisemites as code for Jews”.
But Lord Sacks added: “When challenged with such facts, the
evidence for which is before our
eyes, first he denies, then he equivocates, then he obfuscates.
Does Corbyn really
want to find himself on the same side as Farage? “This is low, dishonest and
dangerous. He has legitimised the public
expression of hate, and where he leads, others will follow.
In response, a Labour Party spokesperson said: “This
comparison with the race-baiting
Enoch Powell is absurd and offensive.
“Jeremy Corbyn
described a particular group of pro-Israel activists as Zionists, in the accurate political
sense – not as a synonym or code for
Jewish people.
“Jeremy Corbyn is
determined to tackle antisemitism both within the Labour Party and in wider society, and
the Labour Party is committed to
rebuilding trust with the Jewish community.”
Labour has been dogged by allegations of antisemitism all
summer, sparked by a refusal to
fully implement the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) examples
to define antisemitism.
Mr Corbyn and his
key advisers have resisted including any statement that says that claiming the Israeli
state is a "a racist endeavour" is
"denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination".
A meeting of the party's ruling National Executive Committee next
week is expected to finally force Mr Corbyn to step into line with the
wishes of his MPs.
However, critics fear the implementation of the IHRA
definition and examples will be done
in a way to prevent disciplinary action against anyone who breached the IHRA examples
in the past.
That would protect the likes of Mr Corbyn and Seumas Milne, his closest aide, from the risk of being
investigated for their historical
comments.
(3) Zionists to get
UK Labour's National Executive Committee to force Corbyn to adopt pro-Zionist
policy
from same article as item 2 above
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-Corbyn-zionist-enoch-powell-antisemitism-rabbi-jonathan-sacks-labour-jewish-leadership-a8511391.html
Jeremy Corbyn's
'Zionist' comments are most offensive by a senior politician 'since Enoch Powell', says
leading rabbi
[...] A meeting of the party's ruling National Executive Committee next
week is expected to finally force Mr Corbyn to step into line with the
wishes of his MPs.
(4) Major General
(former Israeli minister) Matan Vilnai threatens Palestinians with a 'Shoah'
i.e. Holocaust
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180806-the-Corbyn-anti-semitism-row-reveals-how-desperate-israel-and-its-lobbyists-are/
The Corbyn
anti-Semitism row reveals how desperate Israel and its lobbyists are
August 6, 2018 at 10:37 am
by Yvonne Ridley
@yvonneridley August 6, 2018 at 10:37 am
The socialist leader of a British political party embroiled
in an anti-Semitism row has
apologised for appearing on platforms with people who drew Nazi-style comparisons
with Israel’s actions. His remarks,
though, have backfired among some Jewish and other pro-Palestinian groups.
They have accused the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn of “crumbling” after pointing out that the original “Nazi”
comments were made by a Jewish
survivor of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Corbyn’s statement and apology were delivered last week in
response to a British media furore
over reports that he hosted an event in 2010 during which Israel’s behaviour towards the Palestinians was
compared to Nazism.
Corbyn’s critics
in the pro-Israel Lobby failed to consider that the Nazi comparison was made by Hajo
Meyer, a Holocaust survivor who died
in 2014. Meyer made the comparison during a talk in a House of Commons committee room on “The Misuse of the
Holocaust for Political Purposes”.
Furthermore, a man who was removed by security officials from the meeting for making a Nazi
salute and shouting “Sieg Heil” was
actually from the pro-Israel lobbyists who were in the audience.
Among those rushing to condemn the Labour for further “proof”
of anti-Semitism within the Labour
Party under Corbyn’s leadership
was one of his own MPs. Liverpool’s
Louise Ellman told the BBC that she
was “absolutely appalled” to hear about his involvement in the Holocaust meeting. She forgot to
mention that she had attended the
same meeting in parliament and was among those who jeered a Holocaust survivor. No one from the BBC
questioned her about that, or the fact
that the comments at the heart of the anti-Semitism row were made by a Jew who survived Auschwitz.
Attempts to smear Corbyn as an anti-Semite ignore
Israel-Nazi comparisons made by
Jews
The latest, and harshest, criticism by the co-organisers of that meeting have been saved
for Corbyn himself. “We will not crumble, as Jeremy Corbyn seems to have done,”
insisted the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign. “By his apology and
attack on two advocates of
Palestinian freedom Corbyn has only
emboldened those who defend every Israeli crime and work to silence
opponents of the crimes against
humanity carried out by the State of Israel on the Palestinian people.” Such opponents, the SPSC
claimed, will never be placated
because they hate the idea of Corbyn being within reach of 10
Downing Street where he might
challenge Britain’s alliance with Israel.
“False accusations of anti-Semitism by defenders of Israeli
snipers,” the Campaign added, “is
‘the gift that keeps on giving’. Once a false accusation has been made the act of
denial is portrayed as proof of
guilt. This new version of Catch 22 submerges areas of British politics in a McCarthyite madness
where the accusation, however
absurd, means inescapable guilt, at least in much of the mainstream media.” That media, it must be said,
has been shamefully biased towards
Israel’s increasingly far-right position.
Corbyn’s apology
read thus: “In the past, in pursuit of justice for the Palestinian people and peace in
Israel/Palestine, I have on occasion
appeared on platforms with people whose views I completely reject. I apologise for the concerns
and anxiety that this has
caused.”
The man who drew parallels with the Nazi regime, 85-year-old
Dr Hajo Meyer, was joined at the
meeting in the House of Commons on Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January 2010, by Dr
Haidar Eid, who participated in the
meeting from Gaza via speakerphone. Both men compared the dehumanisation of Jewish people in
Hitler’s Germany pre-1941 with the
dehumanisation of Palestinian people in current day Israel and occupied Palestine. Throughout his UK
speaking tour, Dr Meyer received
standing ovations.
Jeremy Corbyn: A
devil in Israel, a hero to the Arabs
Co-organisers from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist
Network (IJAN) said that the tour
had provided an opportunity for “many
hearing for the first time important truths about Israel’s occupation of Palestine.” In a press statement
issued last week, IJAN quoted Meyer:
“My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanise any other, must first be dehumanised
himself. The oppressors are no
longer really human whatever uniform they wear.“
The event in 2010 attracted leading Zionist figures including
Ellman [then and now, Vice Chair of
Labour Friends of Israel], Jerry Lewis
[then Vice President, Board of Deputies] and Jonathan Hoffman [then Co-Vice Chair of the Zionist
Federation], as well as Christian Friends of Israel. “Most of them had clearly
not come to listen,” explained IJAN.
“They barracked both Dr Meyer and Dr Eid, and one of them, Martin Sugarman, had to be escorted
out by the Commons security; on his
way out he stunned everyone by giving the Nazi salute and shouting ‘Sieg Heil’.”
IJAN added that following the deaths of more than 2,000
Palestinians in Gaza in July 2014, a
letter from survivors of the Nazi genocide and hundreds of their descendants called
for a full economic, cultural and
academic boycott of Israel. “Genocide begins with the silence of the world… We must raise our collective
voices and use our collective power
to bring about an end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing genocide of Palestinian
people. ‘Never again’ must mean NEVER
AGAIN FOR ANYONE!” Dr Hajo Meyer was the first to sign the letter, which was published in the New York
Times on 24 August 2014, the morning
after he died.
IJAN describes itself as an international network of Jewish
people opposed to imperialism,
militarism, apartheid and genocide. It said that the event in question was “a
coming together of many communities
which have faced dehumanisation, racism and genocide.” Speakers were Armenian, Bangladeshi, Irish, Native
American, Roma, Rwandan and Tamil.
There were also people with disabilities, and a speaker on the slave trade from Africa to the
Americas and the revolution which ended
slavery in Haiti.
In its literature, IJAN says that it supports “the liberation
of the Palestinian people, and the
right of return for those driven from
their homes and their land by Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing.” The group has active
chapters in Argentina, Canada,
France, Spain, Britain and America.
Labour’s anti-Semitism row highlights the hypocrisy of Corbyn’s enemies, again
Its tour partner on that occasion, the Scottish Palestine
Solidarity Campaign, recalled the
events clearly: “During his talks, Hajo Meyer movingly described his experiences in
Nazi-occupied Europe; how the regime
dehumanised him and other Jews, and drew compelling parallels between his life before 1941 and
Israel’s progressive dehumanisation
of Palestinians up until the present day. Dr Meyer argued at each meeting that ‘Zionism was the polar
opposite of Judaism’, ie a brutal
programme of settler colonialism contrasted with the ethical power of one of the great world religions.”
Dr Haider Eid spoke at that meeting in 2010 from the Gaza
“prison camp”, as former British
Prime Minister David Cameron once called the besieged territory. Most of the
Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip
are refugees from other parts of historic Palestine, having been driven from their homes by waves of
Israeli ethnic cleansing. Successive
military offensives have been carried out by Israel over the years.
Dr Eid spoke a year after Israel’s massacre of 1,400
Palestinians, which the UN Goldstone
Commission concluded was “a war crime and possible crime against humanity.”
Crimes against humanity were first
prosecuted against the Nazi leadership in Nuremberg after the end of World War Two. The Palestinian
academic suggested that Nazi-type
bestiality was not consigned to history by the Nuremburg trials. “The world was absolutely wrong to think
that Nazism was defeated in 1945,”
he insisted. “Nazism has won because it has finally managed to Nazify the consciousness of its own
victims.”
SPSC added that while the pro-Israel lobby seeks to
criminalise such statements, Dr
Eid’s comparison of modern day Israel to Nazi Germany has also been articulated by several
prominent political figures in
Israel, including the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army, Yair Golan. Major General Golan
said in a speech delivered at a 2016
Holocaust Memorial event in Israel that, “It’s scary to see horrifying developments that took
place in Europe begin to unfold
here.”
The senior officer came under intense attack inside Israel
but was defended by prominent
figures. His comment was widely believed to be a reference to the case of Elor Azaria,
an Israeli soldier who was caught on
film taking deliberate aim and shooting dead an injured and already prone Palestinian, Abdel
Fattah Al-Sharif. Golan may, though,
have been thinking of the recently appointed Military Chief Rabbi Eyal Karim who, as well as calling for
genocide in Gaza, had endorsed rape
of “comely Gentile women” if it maintained the morale of Israeli soldiers in wartime.
Another example of a senior Israeli drawing on the horrors of
World War Two under the Nazi regime
was provided when another Major General,
and former minister, Matan Vilnai threatened the Palestinians with a
Holocaust. In order to leave everyone in no doubt about what he meant, he used the Hebrew word “Shoah”.
Intensive efforts by pro-Israel groups in Britain have so far
failed to provide a single
anti-Semitic word written or uttered by Corbyn to back up their accusation, but this has
not stopped the campaign against
him, which is apparently being directed by Israel’s Embassy on the British capital. Unable to win the
debate by rational means, it seems
that the tactic now is to try to shut down open and honest debate altogether. Anyone who does not
toe the pro-Israel line must be
discredited and disregarded at all costs, even when that person is both a Jew and a survivor of the Nazi
Holocaust. That’s how desperate
Israel and its apologists are.
(5) The Palestinian
cause must not be traduced into oblivion by wealthy and powerful circles
MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2018
THE Daily Mail has form in fashioning fake news to discredit
left-wing politics, but it plumbs
new depths in linking Jeremy Corbyn
with the killers of Israeli athletes
at the Munich Olympics.
Both it and Jewish News should be ashamed of their role in
exploiting the grief of Ankie
Spitzer and Ilana Romano, whose husbands were murdered in the Olympic village in
1972.
No wonder the women feel moved to condemn the Labour leader,
but their condemnation should be
reserved for cynical politicians and media prepared to distort the truth for base
purposes.
Spitzer herself has drawn criticism previously for refusing
to express pleasure over
assassinations carried out by Mossad in pursuit of Palestinians said to have participated
in the Munich terrorist atrocity,
insisting she wanted justice not revenge.
Corbyn’s weekly
Morning Star column (October 6 2014) quoted by the Mail concentrated on the need to
“break with US policy on the Middle
East and give full political recognition to Palestine.”
To this end, he welcomed the recent declaration of unity
between Palestinian factions, still
fraught with problems but also the goal of the oppressed Palestinian people, and
the support given by Tunisians
released from jail in the 2011 revolution to the Palestinian cause.
Corbyn reminded
Star readers that Tunis had suffered a state terrorist attack in 1986 when Israeli warplanes
destroyed the offices of the
Palestine Liberation Organisation, killing 60 people, many of them Tunisians.
The PLO had moved to Tunis after being driven out of
Lebanon, following the 1982 mass
slaughter of unarmed Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps by
Phalangist militia, assisted by an
Israeli invasion force headed by Ariel Sharon, who later became prime minister.
He noted too that a conference was being held in Tunisia,
discussing Gaza’s reconstruction,
just weeks after Israel’s Operation Cutting Edge assault had levelled housing and
infrastructure and killed over 2,100
Palestinians.
This was just five years after its predecessor Operation Cast
Lead killed around 1,400
Palestinians, with international condemnation of Israel’s use of white phosphorus in
populated areas.
The Israeli widows told Jewish News: “We do not recall a
visit of Mr Corbyn to the graves of
our murdered fathers, sons and husbands.”
But neither they nor those who have set them up for this
shameful media ambush spare a
thought for the bereaved families of thousands upon thousands of Palestinian men,
women and children slaughtered by
Israeli state terrorism.
The implication of those who smear Corbyn is that only Israelis can be innocent terrorism victims while
overwhelmingly nameless Palestinians
either merit their fate or are reduced to anonymous human collateral damage.
The Labour leader remains today, as he was as a backbencher,
resolute that the Palestinian cause
will not be traduced into oblivion by
wealthy and powerful circles, including the Daily Mail.
In his above-mentioned Star column, Corbyn commended Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East chairman
Grahame Morris for proposing a House
of Commons motion to recognise the state of Palestine.
“Already, Israeli supporters are saying no motion should be
debated until the long-stalled peace
talks reach a conclusion,” he warned.
Israeli leaders are content to find one pretext after another
to prevent meaningful peace talks
from starting, let alone concluding,
using the negotiations hiatus to press ahead with illegal colonisation of the West Bank, including East
Jerusalem.
Corbyn, unlike
too many British politicians, will not stand idly by while this injustice persists and this
is the real reason for the bogus
anti-semitism furore exploding around his head.
(6) Lobby plans to
get IHRA definition of anti-semitism adopted at Labour’s National Executive
Committee
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palestinian-groups-call-reject-ihra-definition-anti-semitism
Lamiat Sabin's picture LAMIAT SABINWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29,
2018
Palestinian groups call to reject IHRA definition of
anti-semitism
PALESTINIAN civil society groups called on the Labour Party
and trade unions today to reject the
International Holocaust Remembrance
Alliance’s definition of anti-semitism because it would silence criticism of Israel’s policies.
A collection of 24 trade unions, campaign groups and refugee
networks issued a statement against
the adoption of the definition, saying that it “conflates anti-semitism with
criticism of Israel.”
The signatories include the General Union of Palestinian
Workers, General Union of
Palestinian Teachers, General Union of Palestinian Peasants, Palestinian Camps Boycott
Movement (Lebanon) and Women
Campaign to Boycott Israeli Products.
They entered the row over Labour’s decision not to adopt
all accompanying examples to the
IHRA definition on anti-semitism,
circulating the statement online with the hashtag #DontSilencePalestine.
ITV reported today that three members of Labour’s national
Executive committee said the party would adopt the IHRA definition at its
next full meeting on September
4.
The Palestinian organisations’ letter says the IHRA
guidelines “deliberately conflate
hostility to or prejudice or discrimination against Jews on the one hand with
legitimate critiques of Israel’s
policies and system of injustice on the other.”
The IHRA definition “attempts to erase Palestinian history,
demonise solidarity with the
Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality, suppress freedom of
expression, and shield Israel’s
far-right regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid from effective measures of accountability
in accordance to international law,”
it adds.
Britain-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben
Jamal called the statement a “hugely
significant intervention.”
He said: “We share these concerns about how the IHRA is being
used to suppress discussion of the
realities of Palestinian dispossession and the ongoing denial of their rights as
well as a tool to quash the boycott,
divestment and sanctions movement.
“Labour and the trade union movement must heed Palestinian
voices.”
(7) Orban Is a Clever
anti-Semite. Corbyn Is a Stupid One - Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-orban-is-a-clever-anti-semite-Corbyn-is-a-stupid-one-1.6292393
Orban Is a Clever anti-Semite. Corbyn Is a Stupid One
Who is worse - the devious or the deluded?
Anshel Pfeffer
Jul 19, 2018 6:39 PM
I had dozens of conversations last week with Hungarian Jews
on anti-Semitism. The overwhelming
majority of those I met in Budapest
are convinced that Prime Minister Viktor Orban, visiting Israel this week, has been
appealing to the anti-Semitic instincts of Hungarian nationalist voters.
They see it in the way his government has sanitized and
venerated the record of the fascist
Horthy regime and in the nation-wide smear campaign against the "global
capitalist" Holocaust survivor George
Soros which has been going for nearly three years.
But at the same time they have been at pains to emphasize
that "personally" they feel perfectly
safe as Jews in Hungary. Anti-Semitic incidents are down and the media,
regulated by the government, has
largely been cleansed from the once prevalent negative references to Jews. The only overt anti-Semitism
they encounter is usually in the
shape of non-politically-correct and ignorant remarks.
But the majority of Jews in Hungary, and the official
leadership of the community, still
believes that the government-funded anti-Soros campaign blatantly uses
anti-Semitic imagery and their requests that it be stopped have been repeatedly
ignored. So has anti-Semitism under
Orban got worse or better?
I constantly find myself asking the same question about
Britain, the country of my birth.
These things weren’t measured when I was a kid there in the late 1970s and early 80s,
but I remember a great deal of
anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalism, even in the Jewish neighborhood where we lived, and across the country
there was more violence from the
fascist hard-right, and anti-Semitic chants were the norm at football matches. It hasn’t
disappeared - but it’s no where near as
bad nowadays.
But in the last three years, since Jeremy Corbyn was elected the leader of the Labour Party, barely a
week goes by without another
anti-Semitic scandal at the heart of Britain’s largest (in terms of numbers of paid-up members) political
party.
There have been two kinds of scandals. Either it has been
party members, of all levels, coming
out with the most odious statements
about Jews, sometimes only barely veiled by using the words "Zionists," "bankers" and "the lobby."
There was one thing all those
members had in common - they were all diehard supporters of Corbyn.
The other kind of incident were the periodic revelations of
Corbyn’s own participation in events with
Jew-haters and
Holocaust-revisionists, his support of them (sometimes tempered with his excuse that "I knew they did good
work, I wasn’t aware of other things
they said,") and his membership of real-life and online groups where anti-Semitic statements were
routinely aired.
I’ve never quite been able to work out whether Corbyn is an anti-Semite himself. But this week,
Margaret Hodge, a veteran Labour
parliamentarian and party member of fifty years’ standing called him "a fucking anti-Semite and racist" to
his face. The normally mild-mannered
Hodge has known Corbyn as a
colleague throughout his political
career, so I think we should maybe take her word for it.
The reason for Hodge’s outburst was the decision by Labour’s
National Executive Council,
dominated by Corbyn and his
supporters, to reject the
International Holocaust Remembrance Authority’s (IHRA) official definition of anti-Semitism and adopt
instead guidelines favored by the
hard-left of the party.
To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of defining anti-Semitism. I
think I know what it is when I see
it. You can go online and read elsewhere
about the various merits and flaws of the IHRA definition.
Vans with slogans aimed at Britain's Labour Party are driven
around Parliament Square ahead of a
debate on antisemitism in Parliament, in
London, April 17, 2018.
Vans with slogans aimed at Britain's Labour Party are driven
around Parliament Square ahead of a
debate on antisemitism in Parliament, in
London, April 17, 2018.\ HANNAH MCKAY/ REUTERS But what you need to know right now is
that the IHRA definition has been
adopted by successive British governments, and more important, the British legal system and the
overwhelming majority of British
Jewish organizations and communities.
This week, an unprecedented list of 68 prominent British
rabbis, spanning the range from
female progressives to Hasidic ultra-Orthodox, signed a letter beseeching Labour to
adopt the IHRA definition. But
Corbyn’s team refused.
So the British Labour Party now officially allows within its
ranks anti-Semites who could be
prosecuted by the authorities. And it is now the second major political party in
Europe, along with Orban’s Fidesz,
to reject the definition of anti-Semitism as understood by the very people it is directed against, the
local Jewish community.
I’m really not sure how best to define anti-Semitism. It’s
the most ancient hatred which has
proved extremely adept in evolving to life in the feverish conspiracy theory marshes
of the internet. It’s the template
for all hatred towards minorities but also unique in the way it sees Jews as both inferior and
all-powerful.
Anti-Semitism is both the socialism of fools and the most
evil form of nationalism. Which is
why those on the both the far-left and far-right are particularly susceptible to it.
And it can masquerade equally as
being, "Just criticism of Israel" and as, "How can you call me an anti-Semite, I love Israel?"
Supporters of Orban, including some Jews like Netanyahu,
strenuously deny he is anti-Semite.
They point to his support for Israel (not exactly Israel, more like Netanyahu’s
policies) and insist that Soros,
while being Jewish, is a malicious influence on global politics and that there is nothing anti-Semitic
about the campaign against him.
Similarly, Corbyn
has his Jewish supporters, who are convinced that a man who claims to have fought racism
all his life (racism for Corbyn has
usually consisted of the policies of western and western-supported governments; he’s blind to racism in
regimes with which he’s more
sympathetic), can not be considered an anti-Semite.
As a journalist and freedom-of-speech fanatic, I don’t want
anyone else defining for me what is
or isn’t anti-Semitism. But political
leaders and parties need to be held to definitions and the one rule they have to abide by is
anti-Semitism-is-whatever-most-of-its-potential-targets-and-victims-say-it-is. Orban and Corbyn refuse to do so.
Who is worse? Orban or Corbyn? I don’t know what either of
them actually feel in their heart
and mind towards Jews, but both are
certainly enablers of anti-Semitism.
From all available evidence, Corbyn is a stupid anti-Semite.
Blinkered by his outdated dogma from
perceiving it among his allies, and within the hateful environment in which he
has been immersed his entire adult
life. He has convinced himself it is all legitimate anti-capitalism, anti-Zionism and anti-imperialism.
Orban, on the other hand, is a clever anti-Semite. He has a
keen understanding of European
history and politics, and knows exactly
which buttons to push, how far to go and how to cover himself.
Who is worse? The devious or the deluded? History proves that
both sorts of anti-Semite can cause
terrible damage.
Only one thing I can say for certain about anti-Semitism is
that the best antidote to it is
liberal democracy, moderate politics, and - for all the derision it now attracts from
young firebrands and aging
ideologues alike - centrism.
Orban’s nationalist government has engendered hatred towards
Muslims and migrants. The diehard
supporters of Corbyn’s radical
socialism are now focusing their
hatred on Jews, but two years ago, when a lesbian parliamentarian led the challenge to
his leadership, there was an
outbreak of misogyny and homophobia.
Hatred, both overt and latent, not just of Jews, but of all minorities, of women and members of
the LGBT community is always more
prevalent on both the far-left and far-right fringes of politics. That is where hate and anger rule.
(8) Jewish Labour
activists defend Corbyn as Israel lobby attacks
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/jewish-labour-activists-defend-Corbyn-israel-lobby-attacks
Asa Winstanley
26 March 2018
Left-wing group Jewish Voice for Labour has praised Corbyn’s “consistent commitment to anti-racism”
and condemned current right-wing
attacks.
The show of support comes after two Israel lobby groups
issued a call on Sunday to
demonstrate against alleged anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, for which they hold Corbyn responsible.
But Jewish Voice for Labour has called an emergency rally as
a counter-demonstration, accusing
the Board of Deputies of British Jews
and the Jewish Leadership Council of “playing party politics” ahead of May’s local elections.
Mick Davis, chief Executive of the ruling Conservative
Party, is former chairman of the
Jewish Leadership Council – a leading part of the UK’s Israel lobby.
On Monday morning’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today
program, the Jewish Leadership
Council’s current chairperson Jonathan Goldstein issued an unprecedented personal
attack on Corbyn.
Goldstein claimed that “Jeremy Corbyn is now the figurehead for an anti-Semitic political culture, based
upon obsessive hatred of Israel,
conspiracy theories and fake news.”
Labour witch hunt
Since Corbyn became leader of
the Labour Party in 2015, he has faced
relentless attacks from right-wingers and supporters of Israel due to his long-standing support for
Palestinian human rights.
Exaggerated and often entirely fabricated charges of
anti-Semitism against Labour
activists have been used to attack Corbyn and his grassroots supporters.
These activists have often been Jewish themselves, targeted
for supporting Corbyn and for longstanding Palestine
solidarity activism.
Polls ahead of May’s local elections have predicted that
Labour under Corbyn will make
significant electoral gains.
Jewish Voice for Labour on Monday accused the Israel lobby
and its allies of using the current
wave of anti-Semitism allegations to
undermine Labour’s chances.
Appalling
The JVL statement said that as Jews in Labour currently
campaigning in local elections, “we
are appalled by the actions and statements of the Board of Deputies. They do not
represent us or the great majority of
Jews in the party who share Jeremy Corbyn’s vision for social justice and fairness.”
“Jeremy’s consistent commitment to anti-racism is all the
more needed now,” the group
added.
Jewish Voice for Labour also accused Israel lobby groups of
being “silent” on the “massively
more anti-Semitism on the right of
politics.”
They pointed to a “senior ex-adviser to the prime minister
who recently used a national
newspaper to dredge up anti-Semitic
conspiracy theories.”
In February former Theresa May advisor Nick Timothy wrote an
article in the
Conservative-supporting Telegraph accusing Jewish billionaire George Soros of a “secret plot to
thwart Brexit.”
The piece was widely condemned for “dog-whistle
anti-Semitism.”
But some on the pro-Israel right supported the piece.
Anti-Muslim journalist Melanie
Phillips claimed “there was nothing whatsoever anti-Jewish, with or without the
dog-whistle, in anything Timothy
wrote.”
Soros is often a hate figure for right-wing anti-Semitic
conspiracy theorists, especially
those promoted by the Hungarian government – which is closely allied with
Israel.
Mark Elf, the Jewish anti-Zionist who has
for years blogged at Jews Sans
Frontieres tweeted on Monday evening that the Jewish Voice for Labour counter-demonstration
outnumbered the pro-Israel one.
Times correspondent Lucy Fisher tweeted
that there were ten Conservative
lawmakers at the demonstration, but only a “handful” of Labour lawmakers “milling around
solo.”
Mural controversy
The current wave of right-wing, anti-Palestinian attacks on
Corbyn’s leadership was triggered last week
after a Facebook comment by Corbyn
from six years ago was dredged up.
Labour lawmaker Luciana Berger Tweeted a screenshot of Corbyn commenting on Facebook in 2012,
criticizing the removal of a mural in
East London titled “Freedom for Humanity.”
Berger is parliamentary chairperson of the
Jewish Labour Movement – a group
which lobbies for Israel and has strong links with the Israeli embassy.
The group said in a statement on Sunday night it would be
joining the demonstration against Corbyn.
Corbyn responded
to Berger with regret over the old Facebook comment and said he should have “looked more
closely at the image” of the mural
first.
He also issued a statement on Sunday saying he was “sincerely
sorry for the pain which has been
caused” by what he described as the
“anti-Semitism [which] has occurred in pockets within the Labour Party.”
Conspiracy theories
Mear One, the Los Angeles artist behind the 2012 mural, on
Sunday denied it was
anti-Semitic.
In a 2012 video showing how he painted it, he said it
depicted “the elite banker cartel
known as the Rothschilds, Rockerfellers, Morgans, the ruling class elite few, the
Wizards of Oz … The symbol of the Free
Mason pyramid rises behind this group.”
Lutfur Rahman, a left-winger and then the elected mayor of
Tower Hamlets in East London, had
the mural removed, saying at the time that whether “intentional or otherwise, the
images of the bankers perpetuate
anti-Semitic propaganda about conspiratorial Jewish domination of financial and political
institutions.”
In the late 19th century, some leading members of the
Rothschild banking family
financially supported early Zionist colonization of Palestine.
Indeed, the infamous Balfour Declaration – which announced
the British Empire’s intent to hand
Palestine over to colonization by the Zionist movement – was addressed to Lionel
Walter Rothschild.
Zionism, however, was an idea intricately tied to British
imperialism and principally
supported by Christian Zionists, while being opposed by a majority of prominent British
Jews at the time.
Yet British and American anti-Jewish and right-wing
conspiracy theorists ignore these
facts and regularly cite the Rothschilds’ role in Palestine as part of their claims
asserting secretive “Rothschild”
control over the world.
Palestinians have repeatedly made clear that they want such
conspiracy theorists to have no part
in their struggle.
Updated since publication.
(9) Soros-funded J
Street & Project Syndicate make no comment on Corbyn or Lobby
by Peter Myers, August 29, 2018.
I searched J Street
& Project Syndicate today to see if George Soros has taken a stand on Corbyn
or the Jewish Lobby. Specify time-frames: within the last week, & last
month.
Neither site had anything on Corbyn.
Soros only writes about Brexit, Orban, and Euro opponents.
Nor does Project Syndicate, overall, have anything to say about Corbyn & the
Lobby. Which means that Soros doesn't care much about the Palestinian cause. He
does oppose Netanyahu, but Soros is still a Zionist.
https://jstreet.org/?searchQuery=Corbyn&s=
HOME > Search Results for “Corbyn” YOU SEARCHED FOR: CORBYN
No results found. ==
Nothing on Corbyn.
(10) Corbyn wants to
break the grip of tech giants & billionaires on our media
https://www.rt.com/uk/436658-Corbyn-bbc-overhaul-tech-tax/
Corbyn as PM
would overhaul BBC & tax tech giants in bid to make media ‘hold power to account’
Published time: 23 Aug, 2018 13:06
Britain’s Labour Party would tax tech giants and shake up the
BBC, as part of a media strategy to
be announced by leader Jeremy Corbyn. It aims to build “a free and democratic
media for the digital age” if the
party wins power.
Corbyn is
expected to outline the plan during a speech at the Alternative MacTaggart Lecture at the
Edinburgh TV Festival on Thursday,
where he will call for radical reform of the UK media landscape, and claim journalists are
being “held back” by media tycoons
or, in the case of the BBC, by excessive state influence.
“We need to set journalists and citizens free to hold power
to account, by breaking the grip of tech giants and
billionaires on our media,” Corbyn said Wednesday night on
Twitter.
Jeremy Corbyn @jeremyCorbyn
We need to set
journalists and citizens free to hold power to account, by breaking the grip of tech giants and
billionaires on our media.#ChangeTheMedia
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/22/jeremy-Corbyn-labour-leader-tax-tech-giants-subsidise-bbc-licence-fee
Outlining his vision for the future of the BBC, the Labour
leader’s speech will promote
complete transparency about the diversity makeup of the BBC’s work force and allow for
the election of some BBC board
members by the corporation’s staff as well as license fee payers. Labour would also remove the
government’s powers of appointment.
Another measure would see Labour impose a digital top-up to
the license fee, payable by tech
giants or internet providers in order to
supplement the existing licence fee with a view to reducing the cost for poorer households.
British Media is not waving, it’s drowning…in a sea of its
own mendacity Public interest
journalism would be supported by Labour, with Corbyn expected to say that without it,
a “few tech giants and unaccountable
billionaires will control huge swathes of our public space and debate.”
To this end Corbyn will advocate that
not-for-profit news organisations,
like the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, should be given charitable status while the
creation of “news co-operatives”
could be created with a remit to report on local government, private contractors operating public services,
and regulated bodies.
“The best journalism takes on the powerful, in the corporate
world as well as government and
helps create an informed public,” Corbyn’s text says. “This work costs money. We value
it but somehow that does not
translate into proper funding and legal support.”
The plan has already been slammed by the ruling Tories, with
the party’s deputy chair James
Cleverly saying the measures were only
going to result in more charges for the consumer.
“Tech companies would just put up their prices and pass this
internet tax straight onto families
and businesses across the country — adding more pressure to weekly bills,” he
said.
READ MORE: Hysteria and hypocrisy? MSM launch assault on Corbyn over 'anti-Semitism'
Labour’s media plan comes amid an ongoing battle between the
Labour leadership and British media
outlets, including the BBC, which have
been accused of bias in their coverage of stories about Corbyn.
Last week, the party filed a complaint to the Independent
Press Standards Organisation (IPSO),
over reporting by several British
right-wing newspapers, many owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News International, over “misleading”
coverage of a wreath-laying event
Corbyn attended at a cemetary in Tunis, in 2014.
In March, a report by BBC’s ‘Newsnight’ program was accused
of “extreme bias” against Corbyn after it produced a mocked-up
image of him wearing a
Bolshevik-style hat superimposed in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral.
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