20 August 2019 — WSWS
The filthy witch-hunt of suspended Labour Party MP Chris Williamson by the Blairite right-wing and Zionist forces is being escalated with basic democratic rights under threat.
Tag: israel lobby
With Panorama’s hatchet job on Labour antisemitism, BBC has become the Tory’s attack dog By Jonathan Cook
11 July 2019 — Jonathan Cook
Score-settling may make for lively TV, but it is execrable journalism
Middle East Eye – 11 July 2019
It is difficult to describe as anything other than a hatchet job the BBC Panorama special this week that sought to bolster claims that the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn has become “institutionally antisemitic”.
Misled again by the arbiters of anti-semitism By Jonathan Cook
11 May 2019 — Jonathan Cook
British comedian David Schneider has become one of the more influential public figures on social media seeking to arbitrate what constitutes anti-semitism. Compared to TV show host Rachel Riley, or even Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland, Schneider is an exemplar of moderation and rationality. But, to be honest, the bar has been set pretty low in recent years.
As the Israel lobby in the US weakens, its UK counterpart grows more fearsome
22 April 2019 — Jonathan Cook
Mondoweiss – 22 April 2019
For decades it was all but taboo to suggest that pro-Israel lobbies in the United States like AIPAC used their money and influence to keep lawmakers firmly in check on Israel-related issues – even if one had to be blind not to notice that that was exactly what they were up to.
UK Government Collusion with Israel By Hans Stehling
2 March 2019 — Global Research
According to a 2009 Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, 50% of the then Conservative shadow cabinet were members of the CFI Friends of Israel lobby – (but now, that figure has risen to an estimated 80%). The film also claimed that the pro-Israel lobby group were bankrolling the Tory party. That was nearly ten years ago. In the interim period the lobby has massively increased its influence within a Conservative party that has been in government during that period and the knowledge of that unsavoury relationship is a key driver of animosity against those in government and those in the general population who support this dangerous infiltration of foreign agents into both Houses of Parliament. (See this)
The witchfinders are now ready to burn Corbyn By Jonathan Cook
28 February 2019 — Jonathan Cook
“McCarthyism” is a word thrown around a lot nowadays, and in the process its true meaning – and horror – has been increasingly obscured.
McCarthyism is not just the hounding of someone because their views are unpopular. It is the creation by the powerful of a perfect, self-rationalising system of incrimination – denying the victim a voice, even in their own defence. It presents the accused as an enemy so dangerous, their ideas so corrupting, that they must be silenced from the outset. Their only chance of rehabilitation is prostration before their accusers and utter repentance.
Israel lobby funders back breakaway British MPs By Asa Winstanley
27 February 2019 — The Electronic Intifada
Six MPs who quit Labour for the new group are still with Labour Friends of Israel.
A multi-millionaire pro-Israel lobbyist is funding the UK Parliament’s new Independent Group, it was revealed this week.
Anti-semitism is cover for a much deeper divide in Britain’s Labour party By Jonathan Cook
21 February 2019 — Jonathan Cook
Breakaway MPs hope that smearing Corbyn will obscure the fact that they are remnants of an old political order bankrupt of ideas
Middle East Eye – 20 February 2019
The announcement by seven MPs from the UK Labour Party on Monday that they were breaking away and creating a new parliamentary faction marked the biggest internal upheaval in a British political party in nearly 40 years, when the SDP split from Labour.
Joan Ryan, MP who fabricated anti-Semitism, quits Labour By Asa Winstanley
20 February 2019 — The Electronic Intifada
Leading anti-Palestinian MP Joan Ryan has left Labour. (via Facebook)
Lawmaker Joan Ryan quit Labour on Tuesday, citing party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s supposed “demonization and delegitimization” of Israel.
Ryan is the leading member of Parliament in Labour Friends of Israel – an Israeli embassy front group.
She notoriously fabricated a charge of anti-Semitism against Labour member Jean Fitzpatrick at the UK opposition party’s 2016 annual conference.
Anti-semitism vigilantes are feeding the far-right By Jonathan Cook
16 February 2019 — Jonathan Cook’s Blog
Has anyone else noticed how almost anything you say nowadays – if it’s leftwing – can suddenly be cited as proof of your anti-semitism?
That is, if you haven’t already been denounced as a Kremlin stooge.
Ilhan Omar takes on the establishment By Nora Barrows-Friedman
14 February 2019 — Electronic Intifada
The attacks against Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar are meant to bully her into silence. (Fibonacci Blue)
Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar has exposed a long-held open secret about the massive influence of the Israel lobby group AIPAC on US lawmakers.
Why The Entire Political-Media Class Just Tried To End Ilhan Omar’s Career by Caitlin Johnstone
12 February 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
Well, now we all know what happens when a public official criticizes AIPAC. And of course, that was the whole idea.
Listening and learning, but standing strong
pic.twitter.com/7TSroSf8h1— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) February 11, 2019
