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Jeremy Corbyn in the Commons today
JEWISH Establishment organisations which spread the myth that “the Jewish community” has a single point of view — their own — will certainly not risk taking up Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti’s invitation to engage with the party.
The pro-Israel lobby, which has shown itself to be more concerned with silencing critics of Israel than combating anti-semitism, knows that its allegations could not withstand any level of debate.
The likes of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the self-appointed Jewish Leadership Council, Labour Friends of Israel, Labour Against Anti-Semitism and a bevy of anti-Corbyn MPs, whether Jewish are not, have seen the issue not as a threat to Jewish people but as a means of undermining Jeremy Corbyn.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Morning Star’s Race, Sex and Class Liberation conference last weekend, which discussed the dangers of incipient fascism and the spiralling drive to war