Jon Lansman, Chair, Momentum Cc Laura Parker, Momentum National Coordinator Bcc National Coordinating Group 19 March 2019 Jon, As officers of Bury Momentum we are writing to express our dismay and anger at your recent comments on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme of 25 February when you said Labour had “a major problem with anti-Semitism” […]
Camden Momentum resolution – re Jon Lansman. Passed overwhelmingly, 10 March 2019 At this time when Labour MPs who don’t agree with the Labour manifesto are leaving the party, Jon Lansman has made contentious and inappropriate remarks about antisemitism, effectively siding with those who have made unfounded allegations against the party, its members and its […]
Listening Exercise after John McDonnell When you paint hatred on my garden wall and front door, I will read your words with great interest. When you try to burn my house down I will listen to what the flames are saying. Every lie you tell against me I’ll help you spread by earnestly, and in […]
Their open letter ahead of a conference in Vienna advises against giving Israel immunity for ‘grave and widespread violations of human rights and international law’ Full article here https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-professors-warn-against-equating-anti-zionism-with-anti-semitism-1.6674309?fbclid=IwAR3H5h5E8MtQL8P-58WFFYdL9BAsHWPqAdVAlFpx9m4MiSkXGZD6PKba7Wg
ANTISEMITIC MISCONDUCT What it is – and what it is not This document has been prepared by Jewish Voice for Labour and Free Speech on Israel as a contribution to the Labour Party’s consultation on its Code of Conduct on Antisemitism but has a wider significance. LAW fully supports this excellent contribution to the debate. […]
The Lobby – A Four-Part Investigation In the first of a four-part series, Al Jazeera goes undercover inside the Israel Lobby in Britain. We expose a campaign to infiltrate and influence youth groups, including the National Union of Students, whose president faces a smear campaign coordinated by her own deputy and supported by the Israel […]
Anatomy of a Bomb scare for Jacqueline Walker Tasks such as this are typically implemented on deniable mobile phones, ordered by a raised eyebrow or nod fourth or fifth floor of an unpainted, concrete building, about which no more can be said because, for reasons obvious to both The Guardian and the Daily Star […]
Excellent contribution by PCS leader Mark Serwotka… article from The Independent Labour antisemitism row was created by Israel to distract from ‘atrocities’, trade union boss suggests PCS leader Mark Serwotka claims there is ‘something sinister going on’ behind ‘the most systematic attempt’ to shut down criticism of Israel The leader of one of Britain’s main trade unions […]
Conference notes that: The IHRA is raised in the context of a campaign to demoralise and destroy the left, cut off solidarity with Palestine, provoke a Party split, and discredit Corbyn even comparing him to racist Tory Enoch Powell, slandering members as an “existential threat” to Jews; The 4th September NEC refused Corbyn’s clause defending […]
The wording of recent pre-disciplinary warning letters being sent to Labour Party members from Sophie Goodyear, “Head of Complaints” at Labour’s HQ in Southside, shows that the witch-hunt of socialists in the party continues unabated, albeit in a modified form – particularly against those who forthrightly challenge the racism inherent in Zionist ideology and Israel’s […]
Press release by Palestinian Return Centre: Geoffrey Robertson QC Opinion points out that many forms of anti-Semitism are not covered by IHRA definition including several influential forms that incite hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people generally Opinion criticises Government for adopting a non-binding and incomprehensible definition Danger that definition will be used mistakenly to defame […]
first published on Truepublica The Labour party, relentlessly battered by an organised campaign of smears of its leader, Jeremy Corbyn – first for being anti-semitic, and now for honouring Palestinian terrorists – is reportedly about to adopt the four additional working “examples” of anti-semitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Labour initially rejected […]
I am writing to you, as deputy chair of Greenwich Momentum steering committee, in great anger at the way a disgusting media fed campaign by the anti-Corbyn right in the Labour Party has used grotesque charges of “antisemitism” against Jeremy and some of his long standing supporters in the Labour Party. Some in Momentum have […]
By Rose Le Warne, Labour Party member in the Channel Islands Dear the Rt Hon Jeremy Corbyn I am horrified by what I am witnessing once again in the Labour party, which is nothing more than a ideologically driven witch hunt, which includes the despicable targeting of Jews who do not identify with Israel nor […]
