Reply To: Zionism and anti semitism
“…He himself has talked in the past about “the hand of Israel” subtly and secretly acting from a distance. And from there it is only a short hop to two ideas which seem to have spread from a small hard core rooted in the anti-imperialist far left out into the wider party. First, that Israel – and by extension Jewish people – must have something do with many of the “smears”. And second, that accusations of antisemitism usually have a concealed agenda…”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/04/labour-antisemitism-party-left-bigotry
This is no conspiracy theory without hard evidence yet supposedly well-informed journalists are neglecting to mention Israeli interference in UK politics, preferring perhaps to consider it an aberrant event and not policy.
The Union of Jewish Students (UJS) received money from the Israeli embassy, and attempted to influence the NUS presidency election, and even oust Bouattia following her victory.
During the Labour Party conference,Masot and Joan Ryan, a Labour MP and head of Labour Friends of Israel,alluded to a fund of more than £1m from the Israeli embassy used to send activists and politicians on paid trips to Israel.
A senior political officer at the Israeli embassy in London discusses a potential plot to ‘take down’ British politicians – including a minister.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/lobby-episode-4-takedown-170112091750073.html
The dispute with Williamson was a showing of a documentary in defence of expelled member Walker but little is made of the fact that Walker herself is Jewish.
Surely, the British intelligence agency should be investigating any plan by a foreign country to interfere in domestic politics. And surely it should be headline news and all those investigative reporters should be delving into the Friends of Israel’s role.
Who has heard of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_lobby_in_the_United_Kingdom
There is not so much apologetic response but acquiescence by the media.
The Tory Party, once the natural home of anti-Semitism, does not have any such problems…Or is it the fact that the Tories are not anti-Israel and therefore need not be targeted.
