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Mike Pompeo tells Jewish leaders he would try to stop Corbyn becoming PM

Newsletter published on June 12, 2019

(1) Zionist complaints get Equalities and Human Rights Commission to
investigate anti-Semitism within UK Labour
(2) Pompeo assured Jewish leaders in Britain US govt would "push back"
against Corbyn becoming PM
(3) Mike Pompeo tells Jewish leaders he would try to stop Corbyn becoming PM
(4) Jeremy Corbyn and Ilhan Omar survive repeated  accusations of
anti-Semitism
(5) Corbyn opposes extradition of Assange
(6) Corbyn likened Israel's West Bank actions to the Nazi occupation of
Europe

(1) Zionist complaints get Equalities and Human Rights Commission to
investigate anti-Semitism within UK Labour
https://ahtribune.com/world/europe/uk/3201-zionists-call-up-labour.html

Zionists Call Up Heavy Artillery to Blast Disobedient UK Labour But
could it backfire?

JUNE 04 ,2019

BY STUART LITTLEWOOD

Zionist pressure groups are crowing with delight at the decision by the
Equalities and Human Rights Commission's to investigate anti-Semitism
within the Labour Party.

Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl welcomed it. "In the past
four years we have seen a large number of cases of anti-Semitism
throughout the party from bottom to top. Despite the Jewish community
demonstrating in their thousands outside Parliament, this has still not
been addressed seriously by the party leadership."

The Jewish leadership Council issued a statement on what it called the
Labour Party's unlawful discrimination against Jewish people. "We have
drawn public attention over the last year to the leadership of the
Party’s failure to address the anti-Jewish racism in the party. The fact
that they have obfuscated, denied the problem and we have been accused
of smears should be countered by today’s announcement by the EHRC. This
is a very serious development."

The EHRC for its part says it took the decision to investigate after
receiving a number of complaints about allegations of anti-Semitism in
the Party. The investigation will seek to determine:

whether unlawful acts have been committed by the Party and/or its
employees and/or its agents, and whether the Party has responded to
complaints of unlawful acts in a lawful, efficient and effective manner
The terms of reference also state that the investigation will focus on
"the Party’s response to a sample of complaints of alleged unlawful acts".

In the course of the investigation, the Commission says it may have
regard to the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s)
working definition of anti-Semitism and associated examples "while
recognizing it is a non-legally binding definition".

So perhaps the complainers shouldn't celebrate too soon.

Two 'sample' cases that I doubt will be investigated

Some readers may remember that I conducted my own investigation last
year into a small sample of anti-Semitic cases that turned out to be
utterly bogus. Two Scottish Labour politicians, both regional
councilors, had been accused of anti-Semitic remarks and were
languishing, paralyzed, under the cosh of the party's blundering,
slow-motion disciplinary regime.

In the first case Constituency party officials declared the councilor
guilty and issued a press statement to that effect without waiting for
him to be heard, hugely prejudicing any inquiry. His Council leader
publicly called on him to resign as a councilor, saying his thinking
belonged to the Dark Ages: "To smear an entire community both past and
present, to say he has lost ‘all empathy’ for them is utterly
deplorable," he told the press.

What was the ‘crime’? The councilor had tweeted: "For almost all my
adult life I have had the utmost respect and empathy for the Jewish
community and their historic suffering. No longer, due to what they and
their Blairite plotters are doing to my party and the long-suffering
people of Britain…"

The other councilor was accused of anti-Semitism by a former Labour MP
who, in 2015, wrote to the Culture Secretary urging a debate to ban
Hitler’s Mein Kampf, a best seller, and claiming many would argue that
it is "too offensive to be made available". He suggested there was "a
compelling case for a national debate on whether there should be limits
on the freedom of expression".

A Tory MP then put the boot in, telling the media it was clear to the
vast majority of people that the councilor in question was no longer fit
to hold office and suspension didn’t go far enough.

What exactly was this councilors‘ crime’? She'd had the audacity to
voice suspicion on social media that Israeli spies might be plotting to
get rid of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader after three Jewish newspapers
ganged up to publish a joint front page warning that a Corbyn-led
government would pose an "existential threat to Jewish life in this
country".

She added that if it was a Mossad assisted campaign to prevent the
election of a Labour Government (which would be pledged to recognize
Palestine) it amounted to an unwarranted interference in our democracy.
For good measure she said Israel was a racist State and since the
Palestinians are also Semites, an anti-Semitic State too.

Everyone and his dog, including the entire Labour Party and the Zionist
movement, surely knew that in January 2017 a senior political officer at
the Israeli embassy in London, Shai Masot, had plotted with stooges
among British MPs and other maggots in the political woodwork to "take
down" senior government figures including Boris Johnson’s deputy at the
Foreign Office, Sir Alan Duncan. And that Mark Regev, Netanyahu’s former
chief spokesman and the mastermind behind Israel’s hasbara program of
disinformation and dirty tricks, had recently arrived in London as the
new ambassador.

Masot was almost certainly a Mossad asset. His hostile activities were
revealed not by Britain’s own security services and media, as one would
have wished, but an Al Jazeera undercover news team. Her Majesty's
Government's response? "The UK has a strong relationship with Israel and
we consider the matter closed." But not everyone considered it closed
and at a Labour Party conference fringe meeting Israel insider Miko
Peled warned that "they are going to pull all the stops, they are going
to smear, they are going to try anything they can to stop Corbyn…. the
reason anti-Semitism is used is because they [the Israelis] have no
argument…."

As for the councilor's claim that Israel is a racist State, its
discriminatory laws, ethnic cleansing and other brutal policies over 70
years make it obvious. And its new Nation State laws reinforce the fact.
The councilor's point about Semitism is also fair comment. DNA research
shows that only a tiny proportion of Jews are Semitic (see for example
the Johns Hopkins University study published by Oxford University Press)
whereas most indigenous Arabs in the Holy Land, especially Palestinians,
are Semites. ‘Anti-Semitism’, although meant to describe hatred of Jews,
is a term that’s misused.

And what happens to the false accusers?

Remember the Tory MP who said the councillor wasn't fit to hold office
and suspension wasn't good enough?  It turned out that he was chairman
of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Jews which is funded,
supported and administered by the Board of Deputies who were, and still
are, a major player in the campaign to humiliate Jeremy Corbyn and
weaken the Labour Party. I don't suppose the Conservative Party took
disciplinary action against him.

Both Scottish Labour councilors were suspended for months without a
hearing and the accusations against them paraded in public, seriously
disrupting performance of their duties and their work on behalf of their
constituents. One of them had to wait 16 weeks 'under sentence' and
posted on Facebook: "I can’t make any decisions about my personal,
political, or professional future whilst this hangs over me. I am
constantly tired and anxious, and feel I am making mistakes. I have lost
paid work because of what has happened."

In these two cases a simple, informal assessment at the outset would
have shown no need for formal action. Councilors don’t ‘belong’ to the
Labour Party or any other party; if they belong to anybody it's the
public who elect them as their representative. Their right to free
expression is guaranteed by international convention and domestic law.
Labour (and the other parties) ought to heed the warnings by top legal
opinion (for example Hugh Tomlinson QC and Sir Stephen Sedley) that the
IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is "most unsatisfactory" and has no
legal force, and using it to punish could be unlawful.

When a suspension is lifted the Labour Party rarely issues a statement
exonerating the wrongly accused. They are left struggling to
re-establish their good name. The accuser, often motivated by political
or racial malice or plain ignorance, gets off scot-free after causing
untold damage and isn't even disciplined.

Why, in the first place, take allegations of anti-Semitism seriously
from bully-boys who themselves practice or support racism? And why
suspend someone without first checking whether the allegations, on the
face of it, are remotely valid?

There are within Labour’s ranks some who say idiotic things about Jews,
gratuitously insulting them to the detriment of the campaign for justice
in the Holy Land. Their remarks are so stupidly provocative that one
suspects those making them are Zionist plants. OK, anti-semitic feeling
is often brought on by Israel's endless crimes and brutality. But what
is the point of bringing up Hitler and the Holocaust when Israel is the
perpetrator of more war crimes and other breaches of international law
and human decency than you can shake a stick at?

The investigation needs to happen. I don't suppose the two cases I
looked at will be included in the EHRC's 'sample'. Nevertheless, the
Labour Party must get its act together if only to protect the
free-thinking innocent. This investigation may force it to.

A piece of good news - maybe - for those under Zionist bombardment is
the launch of a new campaign group, Labour Against Zionist Islamophobic
Racism (LAZIR), which aims to build a network of Labour activists who
will work to "kick Zionism out of the British Labour Party" and to "stop
the creeping Zionism that pollutes politics in the UK".

While insisting they are not anti-Jewish they intend working against
"the toxic Jewish Labour Movement" in a campaign to allow anyone to
decry apartheid in Israel without being branded anti-Semites.

They set out 7 policies which, at this early stage, are perhaps best
regarded as work in progress.

(2) Pompeo assured Jewish leaders in Britain US govt would "push back"
against Corbyn becoming PM

From: "Come Carpentier comecarpentier@gmail.com [shamireaders]"

https://www.nationofchange.org/2019/06/11/us-election-meddling-extends-to-britain/

US election meddling extends to Britain

In a recording leaked to the Washington Post, Pompeo assured a group of
Jewish leaders in Britain yesterday that the U.S. government would "push
back" against Corbyn becoming prime minister.

Dave Lindorff / This Can't Be Happening! / Op-Ed - June 11, 2019

So now we have pompous Mike Pompeo, America’s current Secretary of
State, on a visit to the U.K., assuring a group of British Jewish
leaders in a closed-door meeting that the US would work to prevent Labor
leader Jeremy Corbyn from becoming prime minister if his party were to
win enough votes in the next national parliamentary election to get the
opportunity to try and form a new British government.

In a recording leaked to the Washington Post, Pompeo assured a group of
Jewish leaders in Britain yesterday that the U.S. government would "push
back" against Corbyn becoming prime minister in such a case, working
behind the scenes to prevent a victorious Labor party from voting in
Corbyn as Prime Minister.

In the British parliamentary system, the party with the most votes after
an election, if it wins an outright majority, or, as the Conservatives
did in the last election, a plurality of votes and then is able to
successfully cobble together a majority by bringing in other parties,
then can use that majority to elect a new prime minister. Normally the
new PM is the leader of the party that won the most votes, but that need
not be the case.

A questioner on the tape is heard asking Pompeo, "Would you be willing
to work with us to take on actions if life becomes very difficult for
Jews in the UK?" — an obvious reference to a rabid ongoing campaign in
the largely conservative U.K. media and among zionist groups in the U.K.
to tar Corbyn as an anti-semite because of his outspoken defense of
Palestinians under Israeli occupation.

Pompeo, obviously not aware he is being taped, appears to suggest in his
answer on the leaked recording that the U.S. would seek to prevent
Corbyn from becoming PM.  "It could be that Mr Corbyn manages to run the
gauntlet and get elected," he says. "It’s possible. You should know, we
won’t wait for him to do those things [presumably making life ‘difficult
for the Jews in the UK’] to begin to push back. We will do our level
best. It’s too risky and too important and too hard once it’s already
happened."

This — an acknowledgment that the U.S. would try to influence the
selection of Britain’s parliamentary leader —  is truly an astonishing
statement coming from a top U.S. government official, and particularly a
secretary of state. I mean we all know that the US routinely messes with
elections all over the third world, and even in European countries, but
our leaders don’t normally admit it, even in private, preferring to tout
the U.S. as a paragon of "democratic values."

Imagine if Corbyn were Prime Minister in 2020, and his foreign minister
were caught on tape in the U.S. telling a group of black leaders or
Muslim leaders that his government would try mightily to prevent Donald
Trump from winning re-election?

Oh, I know, he or she would immediately be given a ticker-tape parade in
San Francisco, New York and Boston! But seriously, much of the nation,
and the media, would go ballistic.

Of course, AIPAC, Israel’s lobbying organization in the U.S. does
exactly that kind of thing every election year, but still, as a matter
of decorum and at least the pretense of respect for other nations’
sovereignty, one doesn’t expect to hear a secretary of state talking
about such crude interference in the democratic process in another
country, particularly in a nation which is America’s closest ally aside
from perhaps outright dependencies like Taiwan or Dubai.

Not surprisingly, the response in the U.K. has been mostly outrage.

A Labour Party official told the British Guardian newspaper, "President
Trump and his officials’ attempts to decide who will be Britain’s next
prime minister are an entirely unacceptable interference in the U.K.’s
democracy."

The dust-up over Pompeo’s leaked remarks should be recalled as one
contemplates the absurd obsession among Democrats here about alleged
Russian meddling in the 2016 US election continues apace. ...

Pompeo may think he has to "save" the Jews of Britain from Corbyn and
Britain from the anti-Brexiters in the Labor Party, but at the rate
things are going here in the U.S., nobody is going to have to come in
from the outside to "save" America from a Democratic president and a
Democratic Congress in 2020. The Democrats, with their continuing
whining about Russiagate, look like they’ll manage that all by themselves.

Dave Lindorff is an American investigative reporter, a columnist for
CounterPunch, and a contributor to Businessweek, The Nation, Extra! and
Salon.com. His work was highlighted by Project Censored 2004, 2011 and
2012. Wikipedia

(3) Mike Pompeo tells Jewish leaders he would try to stop Corbyn becoming PM
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/09/mike-pompeo-leaked-recording-corbyn-labour-jewish-leaders

Mike Pompeo tells Jewish leaders he would 'push back' against Corbyn

US secretary of state made comments in recording leaked to Washington Post

Rowena Mason and Heather Stewart

Mon 10 Jun 2019 02.30 AEST

Last modified on Mon 10 Jun 2019 05.55 AEST

Labour has accused Donald Trump’s top official, Mike Pompeo, of trying
to stop Jeremy Corbyn becoming prime minister, after he was caught on
tape telling Jewish leaders that he would "push back" against the
party’s leadership.

In a recording leaked to the Washington Post, the US secretary of state
was asked what he would do if Corbyn were to be elected as prime
minister, after sustained criticism over Labour’s handling of
accusations of antisemitism within the party.

The questioner said: "Would you be willing to work with us to take on
actions if life becomes very difficult for Jews in the UK?" In response,
Pompeo appeared to suggest that he would seek to intervene in the debate
before Corbyn had a chance to become prime minister.

"It could be that Mr Corbyn manages to run the gauntlet and get
elected," he said on the recording. "It’s possible. You should know, we
won’t wait for him to do those things to begin to push back. We will do
our level best. It’s too risky and too important and too hard once it’s
already happened."

A Labour spokesman said: "President Trump and his officials’ attempts to
decide who will be Britain’s next prime minister are an entirely
unacceptable interference in the UK’s democracy." He added that the
party was "fully committed to the support, defence and celebration of
the Jewish community and is implacably opposed to antisemitism in any form".

Pompeo’s comments emerged after Trump turned down Corbyn’s request for a
meeting during his state visit to the UK last week, saying the leader
was "somewhat of a negative force". Corbyn joined protests outside
Trump’s press conference with Theresa May, where he pledged to oppose
the US president’s drive for greater access for US health companies to
NHS contracts.

The comments come at a time when Corbyn’s team are nervous about the
latest attempts to oust him from within the party over the issues of
antisemitism and Brexit, after several senior figures came out in
support of a second referendum.

Shadow cabinet sources said the leadership was preparing to take on Tom
Watson and his supporters after his vocal campaign to soften Corbyn’s
Brexit position, with moves under way to generate momentum in favour of
a new deputy leadership election.

There is growing talk about the possibility of the party’s rules being
changed to create a second deputy leader, alongside Watson, but also the
possibility of a new deputy leadership contest altogether. Some Corbyn
supporters are circulating motions against Watson around local
constituency Labour parties and a grassroots petition against the deputy
leader has got about 26,000 signatures so far.

One shadow cabinet minister said they believed the leadership wanted to
make the shadow cabinet less in favour of a second referendum. As part
of this, Corbyn’s team considered swapping Emily Thornberry, the shadow
foreign secretary, with Diane Abbott, the home secretary, over her
support for a second referendum and wider foreign policy issues.

However, it is understood that Thornberry has more recently been assured
that she will not be moved and that Abbott was opposed to such a plan
anyway, which would make the move difficult to carry out without a
public battle.

A Labour source said there were no plans at all for a reshuffle and
dismissed speculation about moves within the top team as mischief-making.

Talk of a reshuffle was sparked when Thornberry was dropped as Corbyn’s
usual stand-in for prime minister’s questions this week after speaking
out about Labour’s strategy for the European elections. On polling day
last month, Thornberry said Labour was "not clear on the one single
thing that people wanted to hear". She was replaced at the dispatch box
by Rebecca Long-Bailey, a rising star on the left of the party and a
staunch Corbyn loyalist.

(4) Jeremy Corbyn and Ilhan Omar survive repeated  accusations of
anti-Semitism

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2019/05/11/hyper-whites-with-hyper-privilege-jews-are-losing-their-status-as-persecuted-victims/

Hyper-Whites with Hyper-Privilege: Jews Are Losing their Status as
Persecuted Victims

May 11, 2019

by Tobias Langdon

Jonathan Portes is a Jewish economist and a big fan of mass immigration.
In collaboration with the Jewish immigration minister Barbara Roche, he
was central to New Labour’s successful conspiracy to open Britain’s
borders to Eastern Europe and the Third World. The conspiracy was very
bad for Labour’s traditional supporters in the White working-class, but
very good for the rich Jewish businessmen who funded Tony Blair and
dictated New Labour’s policies.

But while Portes (pronounced "Port-iz") believes in open borders, he
also believes in closed mouths. In other words, he’s a big fan of
censorship and doesn’t like Whites discussing racial differences and the
effects of mass immigration. When the conservative philosopher Roger
Scruton was sacked from a government committee for alleged
anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and racism, Portes welcomed his departure
and condemned him for peddling "inflammatory nonsense," "tabloid-level
ignorance and straightforward falsity." He then went on to peddle some
inflammatory nonsense of his own when he praised the heavily Jewish
"Race Relations Act of 1968," claiming that the Act "outlawed direct
discrimination in housing or employment, as exemplified by signs saying
‘No blacks, no dogs, no Irish’."

That’s how hate-filled the White English were in the 1950s and ’60s, you
see: when they were offering houses or rooms for rent, they put up signs
saying "No blacks, no dogs, no Irish." Thousands of signs up and down
the land. Well, hundreds, anyway. Well, they were a common sight. So
common, in fact, that there’s no solid proof that they ever existed. The
Irish Studies Centre (ISC) at London Metropolitan University (LMU) has a
single photograph of "somewhat uncertain" "provenance" donated in the
1980s. And when the academic Steve Bruce was researching the topic in
the 1990s, he "tried without success to find one and had to fake one for
a book cover." Writing in 2015, Bruce issued a "plea to Guardian
readers. If "No Irish" signs were as common as is asserted, there should
be plenty of them remaining in private collections, local archives and
the like. … Can we please see some?" No, we can’t. Instead, we need to
have faith. Dr Tony Murray, Director of the ISC at LMU, says that:
"Ample evidence exists in numerous oral history interviews with both
Caribbean and Irish migrants that such signs existed well into the 60s."

No, that’s not "ample evidence": it’s anecdotage. I don’t believe that
such signs ever existed. [...]

Non-Whites are over-represented at the BBC, but this is not a problem.
Nor is it proof that Whites are being discriminated against. Rather it’s
cause for celebration. The egalitarian cult really seeks power, not
equality. And it wants to harm Whites, especially White men, not to help
non-Whites and women. As Steve Sailer puts it, there’s a "coalition of
the fringes" who define themselves by their difference from, and hatred
of, the heterosexual and historically Christian Whites who have formed
the core of societies like the United States and Britain.

The coalition is cracking

Jews have been at the centre of this coalition across the West, and at
this point it’s doubtful it can be called a coalition of the fringes
give their power in the media and the culture generally. Jonathan Sacks,
the former Chief Rabbi, said in 2007 that Jews began "identity politics"
and "the process" whereby "minorities and aggrieved groups jockeyed
first for rights, then for special treatment." Jews promote minority
worship, or the sacralization of racial and other minorities, because
they see themselves as the archetypal persecuted minority. That’s why,
for example, Jewish egalitarians like Dr Richard Stone claim that "Jews
and Muslims are natural allies." Against whom? Against the hate-filled
White Christian majority, of course.

But there are interesting signs that the coalition of fringes overseen
by Jews is beginning to crack. In the New York Times, the Jewish
journalist Bari Weiss has described the Somali Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
as "exactly the kind of politician a vast majority of American Jews, who
overwhelmingly vote Democratic and who have long aligned themselves with
liberal causes, want to celebrate." After all, Omar is "a refugee, a
mother, a Muslim and a woman of color — the first woman of color to
represent Minnesota in Congress." In other words, she’s the very
opposite of a stale pale Christian male. But alas! She has turned out to
be an "anti-Semite" for, among other offenses, noting the power of
Jewish money behind the Israel Lobby. Jonathan Goldstein, "chair of the
Jewish Leadership Council" in Britain, has condemned Omar in the Jewish
Chronicle:

The Jewish community’s position is simple. We want — and as a minority
community are entitled to expect — zero tolerance towards anti-Jewish
racism. If you are a political leader who cannot live up to that
standard, then your words are meaningless to us. Ilhan Omar can’t
propagate old fashioned tropes about Jewish power and money and then
claim to be an ally on racism directed towards Jews. She is part of the
problem not part of the solution and her crocodile tears are plain
offensive. (I am tired of Labour MPs who condemn antisemitism one day
and campaign for Corbyn’s party the next, The Jewish Chronicle, 1st May
2019)

Unfortunately, most progressives will laugh to see a stale pale male
like Jonathan Goldstein condemning a hijab-wearing Black Muslim woman
like Ilhan Omar. But that isn’t the only problem Goldstein faces,
because Jews can’t even rely on their favourite accusation of
"anti-Semitism" any more. Back in March 2019 another member of the
Jewish Leadership Council, the "leading Holocaust educator" Dame Helen
Hyde, "suggested dropping the use of ‘antisemitism’ because students do
not understand what it means." In his condemnation of Omar, Goldstein
was using Hyde’s new alternative, "anti-Jewish racism." He hammered away
at this concept in his article, referring again and again to "racism
directed towards Jews" rather than to "anti-Semitism."

The concept of "anti-Jewish racism" is certainly easier to understand
than "anti-Semitism," but it’s also easier to question. How can a Black
Muslim woman like Ilhan Omar be "racist" against a privileged White male
like Jonathan Goldstein? Jews are so successful and so prominent in
world affairs that, according to the Jewish Chronicle, "One in seven
people polled" in a recent survey "thought Jews made up more than 20 per
cent of the world’s population — which would amount to 1.44 billion people."

"One in seven" is 14 percent and "Only 7 percent of [the] survey
respondents correctly" said that Jews were "less than 1 per cent of the
global population." But would it be good for Jews for the tiny size of
their community to be more generally known? I don’t think it would,
because it would raise questions about why Jews are so successful when
much larger groups like Blacks and Muslims are so unsuccessful. More and
more progressives see Jews not as a persecuted ethnic minority, but as
hyper-Whites with hyper-privilege. That’s why Jeremy Corbyn, leader of
the British Labour party, has been able to survive repeated accusations
of "anti-Semitism" and retain his popularity with ordinary Labour
members and non-White voters.

If Jews switch to accusations of "anti-Jewish racism" against Corbyn,
they will fare no better. After all, his Shadow Foreign Secretary is the
Black Jamaican Diane Abbott and his Shadow Attorney-General is the brown
Bengali Shami Chakrabarti. How could two non-White women like Abbott and
Chakrabarti be such close allies and associates of Corbyn if he’s
racist? One possible answer is that Abbott and Chakrabarti are racist
against Jews too.

But it’s presently impossible for Jews in Britain to openly say that
these two vibrant women are racist, although it follows logically from
Goldstein’s accusation that Labour is an "institutionally racist party."
There are signs, however, that Jews and their allies may be making
attempts to extend the concept of "hate" so that non-Whites can be
guilty of it too. When I visited a webpage run by Victim Support UK
about the "Scottish Government Consultation on Hate Crime," I was very
surprised to see how it illustrated the theme of "Islamophobia." There
was a large photo of a Black youth gleefully pouring beer over the
hijab-clad head of a pale-skinned Muslim girl:

(5) Corbyn opposes extradition of Assange

https://www.rt.com/uk/456286-corbyn-opposes-assange-extradition/

Pursued for ‘exposing evidence of US atrocities’: Corbyn opposes
extradition of Assange

Published time: 11 Apr, 2019 20:25 Edited time: 12 Apr, 2019 09:16

Leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has publicly
opposed UK’s possible extradition of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to
the US, saying he exposed evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hours following Assange’s arrest in London on Thursday, Corbyn tweeted a
video statement of Labour MP Diane Abbott, who argued in Parliament that
WikiLeaks had "lifted the veil on US military operations in a variety of
theaters, none of which have produced a favourable outcome for the
people of those countries."

@jeremycorbyn  The extradition of Julian Assange to the US for exposing
evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan should be opposed by the
British government.

"Julian Assange is not being pursued to protect US national security, he
is being pursued because he has exposed wrongdoing by US administrations
and their military forces," said Abbott.

The US has charged Assange with "conspiracy to commit computer
intrusion," over the 2010 publication of classified US documents
provided to WikiLeaks by US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning.

Fearing extradition to the US on spurious charges raised against him in
Sweden, Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in
2012. He remained inside the embassy for almost seven years, with the UK
denying him passage out, until his asylum was revoked by Ecuadorian
President Lenin Moreno.

(6) Corbyn likened Israel's West Bank actions to the Nazi occupation of
Europe

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/08/10/corbyn-likened-israels-west-bank-actions-nazi-occupation-europe/

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=174580

Corbyn likened Israel's West Bank actions to the Nazi occupation of Europe

The Labour leader, as a backbench MP, said many would recognise the
state of affairs Palestinians were under in the West Bank as being
similar to those "who suffered occupation during the Second World War"
The Labour leader, as a backbench MP, said many would recognise the
state of affairs Palestinians were under in the West Bank as being
similar to those "who suffered occupation during the Second World War"

  Kate McCann, senior political correspondent

10 AUGUST 2018 o 10:58PM

Jeremy Corbyn has likened Israel’s actions in the West Bank to the
Second World War Nazi occupation of Europe, a comparison that breaches
the international definition of anti-Semitism.

Speaking at the Palestinian Return Centre in 2013, the Labour leader,
then a backbench MP, said many would recognise the state of affairs
Palestinians were under in the West Bank as being similar to those "who
suffered occupation during the Second World War".

His comments represent a breach of the International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance [IHRA] definition of anti-Semitism that states that
"Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the
Nazis" is racist. It is the section that the Labour Party has refused to
adopt.

Labour Friends of Israel, which campaigns for a two-state solution,
called his comments "appalling". But Labour insisted Mr Corbyn was not
comparing the Israeli state with the Nazis.

The emergence of the video, posted on Twitter yesterday by an anonymous
account called The Golem, came as Dave Prentis, the Unison general
secretary, called for the party to urgently adopt the official IHRA
definition.

EXCLUSIVE – In 2013 @JeremyCorbyn spoke at an event hosted by the
Palestinian Return Centre in which he made a direct comparison between
Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and the Nazi occupation of Europe
during WW2. Watch until the end… pic.twitter.com/POMfsX5APq

— The Golem (@TheGolem_) August 10, 2018

He directed thinly veiled criticism of the leader’s failure to act,
writing in the New Statesman: "This should never have become such a
divisive issue, an unnecessary schism in a party that on so many issues
is genuinely united."

It came as photos emerged of Mr Corbyn in Tunisia in 2014 holding a
wreath by memorials to Palestinian terrorist group Black September, who
carried out the 1972 Munich massacre where 11 Israeli athletes were killed.

However, sources close to Mr Corbyn insisted he was at a service there
to commemorate 47 Palestinians killed in an Israeli air strike in
Tunisia in 1985.

Jim Murphy, the former Scottish Labour leader, also took out a full page
advert in the Jewish Telegraph to apologise for the behaviour of the
party’s senior team. In it he wrote that Labour "appears to have turned
its back on the British Jewry", accusing Mr Corbyn of failing to stop
anti-Semitic slurs.

It follows weeks of anger and frustration in the party over the leader’s
refusal to adopt the full internationally recognised definition despite
pleas from a large number of Labour MPs.

In the video, Mr Corbyn said the conflict between Israel and Palestine
was portrayed as one between equal powers when it was not, adding: "The
Palestinian people are generally very poor and in the case of Gaza,
virtually imprisoned within that very small area… And in the West Bank,
under occupation of the very sort that would be recognised by many
people in Europe who suffered occupation during the Second World War,
with the endless roadblocks, imprisonment, irrational behaviour by the
military and the police."

A Labour spokesman said: "Jeremy was describing conditions of
occupations in World War Two in Europe, of which there are multiple
examples, not comparing the Israeli state to Nazis."