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Decky wrote:I'm a socialist. We tend towards anti imperialism. The British government are illegally occupying part of another country so they can keep their settlers there and stop the natives retaking it and they are doing it with my tax money, I would rather see that money go on infrastructure projects and the NHS than see it used sending the army to shoot catholic civilians and rape catholic women.

And more to the point I was bought up in a fine republican tradition (in both senses of the word ;) ).


I had not until now been aware of Armalite rifles having been imported from America to aid the Provisional IRA , during the Troubles . I had known that illegal gun trafficking has been prolific , but I still wasn't aware of its international scope. Due to its association with mass shootings though , some people in this country think that such firearms should be banned < https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-ar-15-americas-rifle-or-illegitimate-killing-machine/2018/02/15/743e66ca-1266-11e8-9065-e55346f6de81_story.html?utm_term=.e36690f1a329 , https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/us/politics/ar-15-americas-rifle.html > .
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noir wrote:The offical loby is CAABU. But there are many sort of lobbyists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council ... erstanding


The page looked a bit like not a real wiki page and lead me to this:

This article contains content that is written like an advertisement.


and

This user account is a bot operated by Basilicofresco (talk). It is a legitimate alternative account, used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevant request for approval can be seen here.


zionist editing on wikipedia is still very much a thing. :lol:
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Natan Sharansky, head of The Jewish Agency, (former human rights activist in Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, spent nine years in Soviet prisons), in a solidarity with British Jewish communities says he supports Israeli Labour’s decision to sever ties with Corbyn.

"I welcome the decision by Israeli Labour
Party Chairman Avi Gabbay to suspend
ties with Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the
Labour Party in the United Kingdom, due
to his hostility towards the Jewish
community and his tolerance of antisemitic
statements in his party.

"I presume this was not an easy decision
for Mr. Gabbay to make, in light of the
history of deep friendship between the two
parties.

"I wholeheartedly support his decision,
just as I support the Government of Israel
when it is compelled by its sense of
solidarity with Jewish communities to put
aside immediate interests in order to adopt
a firm position against parties with
antisemitic pasts on the right, even when
they purport to be Israel‘s friends.

"Zionist parties cannot be allied with
antisemitic actors — be they on the left, on
the right, or in the center. I therefore
believe Mr. Gabbay‘s decision to be fair
and just."


Voice from the past. In the 1980s Jeremy Corbyn sponsored a group called the Labour Movement Campaign for Palestine that campaigned for Labour to cut its ties with the Israeli Labour Party.

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noir wrote:picture of Jeremy Corbyn eating a ham sandwich in 1954

How is this stolen polaroid of an obscure family outing that happened during his childhood a "blatant example of public anti-semitism?"
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The lie of "anti racism"


Opinion British Left's anti-Semitism Problem Didn't Start With Corbyn. It's Been Festering for a Century
David Feldman09.04.2018 | 19:05

Anti-Semitism has long been recurrent feature of radical and socialist politics in Britain. We need more than denunciations and expulsions to confront how the left talks about capitalism, race and Jews


Britain's Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn speaks at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Dundee, Scotland, Britain March 9, 2018
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Dundee, Scotland, Britain March 9, 2018 \ RUSSELL CHEYNE/ REUTERS
Scandals provoked by accusations of anti-Semitism have become a recurrent feature of British politics. As the latest tumult subsides we have an opportunity to reflect on the issues that underlie these controversies.

One lesson of the last two weeks is that people who swear they are militant opponents of anti-Semitism "in all its forms" too often turn out to have friends – real friends, comrades, Facebook friends – who are happy to spread anti-Jewish slurs or imagine the basic facts of the Holocaust are up for debate.

For this reason when Labour Party leaders insist there will be no place for anti-Semites in the Party, their words don’t measure up to the problem. Too many believe they face a handful of anti-Semites, a bunch of interlopers.

Read more: How the U.K. Labour Party's 'Zionist Problem' Started | Opinion | The Crisis Between Jeremy Corbyn and British Jews Has Reached Boiling Point | Opinion | Britain's pro-Palestinian Left Hasn't Solved Its Jew-baiting Problem | Opinion

Others acknowledge the problem is more widespread but then trot out evasive phrases about "unconscious anti-Semitism," or vaguely suggest we educate people to recognise anti-Semitic tropes.

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The problems go deeper than Labour leaders have been willing to admit. Even though we conventionally associate anti-Semitism with the right and fascism especially, the political culture of the Left has long been a source of anti-Semitism.

A more recent development is that some avowed anti-racists are seemingly unable to recognise anti-Semitism when it stares them in the face. They dismiss it instead as a smear perpetrated by "Blairites" and Zionists.

Protesters hold placards and flags during a Jewish community demonstration against anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Parliament Square, London. March 26, 2018 \ HENRY NICHOLLS/ REUTERS
While the disciplinary reforms recommended by Shami Chakrabarti may help overcome these problems, the Labour Party requires more than denunciations and expulsions. It also needs reflection, education and above all leadership.

A helpful place to start is the important distinction between "anti-Semites" and "anti-Semitism."

We find it at the heart of George Orwell’s writing on the subject. In October 1948 Orwell wrote to his publisher, "I think [Jean-Paul] Sartre is a bag of wind and I’m going to give him a big boot." It was Sartre’s Portrait of the Anti-Semite (better known in English as Anti-Semite and Jew) which had provoked Orwell.

Sartre’s book was organised around the idea that the "anti-Semite" was an identifiable type: bourgeois, reactionary, uncomfortable in the modern world. Orwell, by contrast, in his essay on "Antisemitism in Britain", published in April 1945, presents a very different view.

Anti-Semitism (not the anti-Semite), he insists, is present across all classes and is pervasive in British literary culture from Chaucer to Shakespeare to T.S Eliot and Aldous Huxley. Anti-Semitism, Orwell proposed, is a shared problem, not a pathology confined to a particular type.

Mural of George Orwell. Southwold, Suffolk, UK geogphotos / Alamy Stock Photo
He drew a striking conclusion from this insight: "The starting point for any investigation of anti-Semitism should not be ‘why does this obviously irrational belief appeal to other people?' But 'why does anti-Semitism appeal to me?'"

Labour politicians would do well to emulate Orwell’s honest introspection and contemplate the movement to which they have given their lives. Doing so means coming to terms not only with Jews and anti-Semitism but also capitalism and race.

Anti-Semitism has been recurrent feature of radical and socialist politics in Britain from the 19th century's William Cobbett to the present day. We find it in the Chartist movement in the 1840s and in the pages of Keir Hardie’s Labour Leader, which in 1891 proclaimed that imperialist wars were being planned to suit the interests of "hook-nosed Rothschilds."

Here's @rickley1975 really really thinking he's being fair. pic.twitter.com/tyqAGpifwj

— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) April 1, 2018
Jews were good when outcast, a long way away and suffering from Tsarist oppression. But many of the same socialists and radicals who protested against pogroms were first in line to pronounce the Boer War an expression of Jewish conspiracy.

In failing to acknowledge this inheritance, Labour leaders disavow a painful and dishonorable aspect of the movement’s past. And as events in recent weeks have shown, these problems have not died away.

Across the political spectrum protagonists continue to categorise Jews as "good" and "bad". The habit is clearly visible on the Left. Here, too often, Jews find that having the "correct" view on Israel/Palestine and Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership is a precondition for getting a hearing on anti-Semitism.

A key feature of modern anti-Semitism has been the racialized projection of "the Jew", an archetype which stands above and in conflict with the working class. Throughout the history of the left, certain anti-capitalist visions generated by socialists have overlapped and combined with this strain of anti-Semitism.

What makes anti-Semitism particularly attractive and dangerous for the left is that it can appear oppositional. It provides an easy personification of oppression in the face of less tangible, global forms of domination.

Read more: Why Are Corbyn's Labour and the Trump Administration Such Fertile Ground for anti-Semites? | Opinion | The Labour Party Must Decide if It's a Political Home for anti-Semites or for British Jews | Opinion | British Jews Bravely Stood Up to Labour's anti-Semitism. It Was a Tragic Failure | Opinion

Which takes us to the mural in Tower Hamlets; the cause of so much controversy last month. Entitled Freedom For Humanity, the mural depicts six men, some with exaggerated "Jewish" features, at a table dictating the 'New World Order'. In 2012, when the local council ordered the mural’s removal, Jeremy Corbyn signalled his opposition on Facebook.

When asked to clarify his message, the artist Mear One claimed the mural depicted "class and privilege," nothing more. In fact it offered a vision of class stained through with modern anti-Semitism: a critique of capitalism in which the forces of global power are rendered "Jewish."

Kalen Ockerman's mural titled “Freedom for Humanity” on a wall near Brick Lane in London’s East End Kalen Ockerman
Everyone, including now Corbyn himself, recognises this. Yet for all the attention it received, one thing seems to have eluded almost all commentators: the mural not only depicts Jews and Jewishness, but places them in opposition to the pain and suffering of black and brown bodies.

The mural controversy illustrates the ambiguous position Jews occupy within contemporary anti-racist politics.

If the left limits itself to a conception of racism which focuses solely on white privilege, it will continue to find it difficult to recognise Jews as its victims. Similarly, if European racism is understood only as a consequence of colonialism, we ignore the history of racialized exclusions within Europe itself.

We need to place colonial racisms alongside anti-Semitism, and recognise how the two intersect and sometimes diverge.

American scholar and Pan-Africanist W.E.B. Du Bois did just this when he came face-to-face with the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto shortly after the war. It was “particularly hard for me to learn”, said Du Bois of the rubble in Warsaw, that this "was not even solely a matter of color." These reflections by Du Bois remind us today that color-coded definitions of racism cannot account for the history of anti-Semitism.

This difficulty is deepened by the success of Jewish integration in contemporary Britain. Overwhelmingly a middle-class community, disproportionately represented in 'top professions,' lauded by the political elite and with a growing tendency to vote Conservative, British Jews are poorly positioned to evoke sympathy from those anti-racists who imagine that poverty, exclusion and racism always line up neatly together.

Celebratory crowd outside the Dizengoff House (now called Independence Hall) to hear the declaration and signing of Israel's Declaration of Independence, May 14, 1948 Wikimedia
And then there is the question of Israel/Palestine, which has poisoned the Labour Party debate on anti-Semitism in recent years and continues to do so today. The great majority of British Jews feel an attachment to Israel, constituted as Jewish state. This, of course, creates a further problem for those parts of the Left invested in a distinction between Jewish identity and Zionism as a political ideology.

Attempts to fold Zionism into the history of European imperialism and settler-colonialism bring into sharp view the ongoing racism and injustice endured by Palestinians. At the same time, however, they obscure the fact that Zionism was in part a response to murderous racism experienced by Jews inside Europe.

This tragic dynamic was captured powerfully by Hannah Arendt: "The solution to the Jewish question merely produced a new category of refugees, the Arabs, thereby increasing the number of stateless and rightless by another 700,000 to 800,000 people."

Israel today is a complex entity: while some focus solely on its democratic credentials, others point to its history of dispossession and occupation. It advertises its promotion of LGBTQI rights but remains a bastion of state-sponsored ethnic and religious privilege.

Jewish statehood has generated a complicated history that sometimes makes it difficult for the left to even recognise anti-Semitism in Britain, let alone combat it.

Then-MP Jeremy Corbyn marches from Downing Street to the Israeli embassy in support of Palestinian demands that the Israeli government stop the bombing of Gaza. 19th July 2014 © keith wells/Demotix/Corbis
Labour needs to learn and reflect on how racisms of different sorts have figured in its own past and continues to shape the present. It should be possible to decry global inequality and support justice for the Palestinians without likening Israelis to Nazis, invoking the Jews’ special conspiratorial power or holding diaspora Jews directly responsible for the actions of the Israeli state.

The challenge for the Labour Party’s leadership is to oppose racism unconditionally and without exception, including when its targets are Jews, most of whom do not support the party and who do identify with the State of Israel.

There is also a challenge for the Jewish community, especially its leaders. Their alertness to anti-Semitism in Britain should lead them to support anti-racist campaigns more generally. It might also allow them, even as they identify with Israel, to recognize and censure the racialized inequalities within and beyond its recognised boundaries.

In their different spheres, both the Labour Party and the leaders of the Jewish community should understand that anti-racism is not divisible.

David Feldman is Director of the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London where he is also a Professor of History. He was a Vice Chair of the Chakrabarti Inquiry into Antisemitism and other forms of racism in the British Labour Party.

Brendan McGeever is lecturer in the sociology of racialization and Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the Acting Associate Director of the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, and is author of the forthcoming monograph The Bolsheviks and Antisemitism in the Russian Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Twitter: @b_mcgeever


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Israeli Labor Party cuts ties with UK Labour. I dont see a problem with this, not when it's leaders say things like the quotes below, they can hardly be called a "Labour" party can they.

"In October he described illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank as “the beautiful and devoted face of Zionism.”"

"Gabbay has also vowed that under his leadership, Israel’s government would never include parties representing Palestinian citizens of Israel."

"Yesterday, Gabbay told Israeli television that he opposed discussing the removal of even the most isolated illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The remarks came a day after Gabbay told a meeting of party activists that “the Arabs have to be afraid of us”. He added: “They fire one missile – you fire 20. That’s all they understand in the Middle East”."

On Saturday, meanwhile, Gabbay vowed to never enter into a coalition with the Joint List, a Knesset group dominated by parties representing Palestinian citizens

It was the Labour Party, as Israeli news site +972 Magazine put it, whose “glory days included the Nakba [the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948]”, as well as “conquering and settling the West Bank and East Jerusalem”.
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Israel Labor party cuts ties to Jeremy Corbyn for supporting Palestinian rights
The leader of the Israeli Labor Party on Tuesday wrote to Jeremy Corbyn suspending “all formal relations” with the UK Labour leader.

In a publicly released letter, Avi Gabbay cited Corbyn’s “hatred of the policies of the government of the state of Israel.”

On Saturday, Corbyn had sent a statement to a Palestine Solidarity Campaign demonstration in London condemning the “killing and wounding of yet more unarmed Palestinian protesters yesterday by Israeli forces in Gaza” during the last two weeks as “an outrage.”

Gabbay’s letter states that on “security” policies “the opposition and coalition are aligned” – effectively meaning that Palestinians can expect no end to Israel’s calculated and premeditated violence against unarmed civilians if Gabbay’s ostensibly center-left party wins power.

In an unprecedented warning on Sunday, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court stated that Israeli leaders could face trial for violence that has killed some 30 unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza since 30 March.

The current Israeli government is a hard-right coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Labor is the main opposition bloc in the Israeli parliament.



Gabbay’s letter to Corbyn also cites “the hostility that you have shown to the Jewish community” in the UK.

Even before Corbyn became leader in 2015, the Labour Party has faced a rash of accusations that it has a major “anti-Semitism problem.”

But a witch hunt of exaggerated and sometimes outright fabricated allegations has been the most persistent right-wing scare story about Corbyn’s leadership.

Anti-Arab
Supposed Israeli “centrist” Avi Gabbay was chosen as leader of the party last year, despite not having been elected to Israel’s parliament.

Gabbay is a strong supporter of Israeli violence against Palestinians.

In October he described illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank as “the beautiful and devoted face of Zionism.”

Gabbay has also vowed that under his leadership, Israel’s government would never include parties representing Palestinian citizens of Israel.

The UK Labour Party did once have close ties to the Israeli Labor Party.

One UK Labour grandee in 1959 even made genocidal statements in favor of Israeli colonization of Palestinian land and of the right of “the white man” to “civilize these continents by physically occupying them, even at the cost of wiping out the aboriginal population.”

This trend has declined over the decades as the wider left became more critical of Israel.

“Not going anywhere”
Corbyn himself has been a veteran solidarity activist for Palestinian liberation. But under pressure from the Israel lobby he has watered down many of his previous positions.

Corbyn’s shadow foreign minister Emily Thornberry, however, is a supporter of Labour Friends of Israel, and last year pushed Israeli government talking points and racist tropes.

Labour Friends of Israel on Tuesday responded to Gabbay’s letter saying “we fully understand” why he had made the move. The group accused Corbyn of failing to “respond to their repeated offers of dialogue, including invitations to host him at Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust museum,” and said its “relationship with the Israeli Labor Party remains unaffected.”

The Jewish Labour Movement, another pro-Israel group, responded: “Clearly this proves that the Jewish Labour Movement’s work is more important than ever, and we’re not going anywhere.”

A spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn declined to comment on the Israeli Labour Party. The spokesperson did repeat, yet again, that Corbyn is a “militant opponent of antisemitism.”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/as ... ian-rights


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skinster wrote:https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/984501378218250240

Avi Gabbay is not who I would consider a good bona - fide labor /socialist Zionist . Previously , he had been a founding member of the centrist Kulanu party, plus his family are Likud supporters . < https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Gabbay#Political_career , https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21724971-main-opposition-tries-yet-another-leader-israels-labour-party-gambles > I feel that a better choice for the center-left Labour party to have international relations with would be Meretz . Bernie Sanders has already given an address to one of their party conferences .
So I feel that it would make sense for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party to switch their support over to Meretz , over HaAvodah .
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Jewish Labour Movement worked with Israeli embassy spy
The Jewish Labour Movement acted as a proxy for the Israeli embassy, a document obtained by The Electronic Intifada reveals.

“We work with Shai, we know him very well,” the group’s director Ella Rose admitted to an undercover reporter in 2016, a transcript of the conversation shows.

Shai Masot was the Israeli embassy spy forced out of the UK after an undercover Al Jazeera investigation last year exposed him plotting to “take down” a senior UK government minister.

In a transcript of a conversation Rose had with an Al Jazeera reporter who was using the pseudonym “Robin,” Rose admits to working closely with Masot both before and after she was appointed executive director of the Jewish Labour Movement.

The transcript contains material that was not broadcast as part of Al Jazeera’s January 2017 film The Lobby which exposed Masot and cast light on the activities of pro-Israel groups in the UK.

The transcript reveals that the Jewish Labour Movement brought an Israeli delegation to the 2016 Labour Party conference on behalf of the embassy.

The delegation was presented as a group of young, left-wing Israeli activists.

But the day after the conference closed, a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz alleged that Israeli agents had been “operating British Jewish organizations” in a way that could “put them in violation of British law.”

Close ties
While the Haaretz report – which cites a cable from the Israeli embassy in London – does not name any of the groups, the transcript of the conversation between Rose and the undercover Al Jazeera reporter suggests that the Jewish Labour Movement may have been one of these organizations.

The transcript also reveals Rose deriding UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and shadow finance minister John McDonnell.

Ella Rose did not reply to a request for comment.


In one sequence of the undercover Al Jazeera film, viewable above, Rose says her critics can go and “die in a hole.”

The film also shows that she had previously been an officer “at the [Israeli] embassy working with Shai.”

The Electronic Intifada was first to reveal her employment at the Israeli embassy. A few weeks later, Rose tweeted a photo of herself posing with Israeli ambassador Mark Regev, saying she was “proud” to have worked there.

In a statement broadcast in the film, the Jewish Labour Movement claimed to Al Jazeera that it “denies that it has worked closely with Shai Masot.”

But the September 2016 transcript, large parts of which are not included in the film, shows that Rose’s relationship with Masot and the Israeli embassy continued after she was hired by the Jewish Labour Movement in July of that year.

Despite denials, Masot appears to have been an agent for the Ministry of Strategic Affairs – a semi-clandestine organization that leads Israeli “black ops” against the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.

Its minister is Gilad Erdan, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The ministry’s director-general is a former senior military intelligence officer, most of its employees – whose names are classified – are drawn from the ranks of Israel’s various spy agencies and it has a budget of tens of millions of dollars.

But as revealed in the Haaretz report, the Israeli foreign ministry got wind of how Erdan’s strategic affairs ministry was allegedly “operating” groups in the UK in violation of British law and was unhappy that what it perceived as its turf was being intruded upon.

“Off the record”
Robin had been encouraged by Masot to head up a new group which would be called “Young Labour Friends of Israel.”

In retrospect it looks like Masot must have then been taken to task by his superiors, and instructed to undo some of the mess he had created.


As this excerpt from the Al Jazeera film shows, towards the end of the 2016 Labour Party conference, Masot took Robin aside, and backed away from previous statements regarding the degree of control he wielded over Labour Friends of Israel and the effort to form a youth wing.

He said, “It’s an idea that I cannot implement because I am not a Young Labour Friend of Israel … I am just working in the embassy … it’s off the record … do you get it?”

The footage then shows him winking at Robin.

On the following day, Haaretz published the details of the feud between the ministries based on allegations of “operating” British Jewish organizations.

The paper reported that the foreign ministry urged rival minister Gilad Erdan’s advisers “not to pose as the embassy,” and that the advisers promised not to do so.

In retrospect, this reference to “advisers” almost certainly includes Masot.

Revolving door
The transcript also shows, in unbroadcast segments, that Rose discussed with Robin how he could get a job at the Israeli embassy.

She tells him that two possible positions, one to promote Israeli culture and another to monitor the BDS movement for Palestinian rights, had both been recently filled.

She reveals her intimate knowledge of the embassy’s hiring procedures. One of the candidates, she states, was “going through security at the moment.”

“I could’ve got you an interview as well,” Rose adds.

Rose also states she is close friends with two key figures in the embassy responsible for hiring, and that she had herself “put together half of the list” of candidates for the anti-BDS position.

She offers to help Robin, who was posing as an activist with Labour Friends of Israel, forge links with the Israeli embassy: “I’m more than happy, I can give you the email address if you want to send your CV.”


The transcript calls into question the Jewish Labour Movement’s previous denial that it is “an Israel advocacy organization.”

Smearing Corbyn
The Jewish Labour Movement is one of the main organizations within Labour promoting claims that the party under left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn has a major “problem with anti-Semitism.”

The group’s parliamentary chairperson Luciana Berger kicked off the current wave of the “Labour anti-Semitism” furore.

Rose herself has been running trainings on anti-Semitism to local Labour groups around the UK since 2016.

But many Jewish members of the Labour party do not accept the controversial definition of anti-Semitism offered in these trainings, which conflates hatred of Jews with criticism of Israel, or its state ideology, Zionism.


The Jewish Labour Movement declined to reply to emailed questions about the transcript. A spokesperson responded that the group would “not entertain wild conspiracy theories.”

The Jewish Labour Movement also stated that The Electronic Intifada’s journalism constituted “harrassment” and attached a copy of a letter that their lawyer had first sent to its reporter last year in an apparent attempt to intimidate the publication into ceasing its reporting.

A spokesperson for the left-wing group Jewish Voice for Labour told The Electronic Intifada that the Jewish Labour Movement’s funding is “completely opaque” and said that the new revelations show that there is a “blurred line” between the most senior officer of the Jewish Labour Movement and Israel’s London embassy.

Labour Friends of Israel
The undercover documentary revealed that Rose wrote to Robin saying she was “more than happy to support/help with the setting up of Young LFI.”

In the transcript, Rose again states she is “more than happy to help” and offers to provide Robin with “contacts or advice on anything.”

Rose’s comments in the transcript about knowing Masot “very well” came in the context of discussing an Israeli delegation she’d helped organize to the Labour Party conference in 2016.

Michal Biran, a Labor member of Israel’s parliament, and a group of activists from the Israeli Labor Party’s youth wing, came to Liverpool, headed by Biran and by Shai Masot.

Biran later posted video of her speech at Labour’s conference to Facebook, writing in Hebrew that she “went to the British Labour Party conference to do real Israeli hasbara” – the Hebrew word often translated as “explanation” or “propaganda.”

This week, Avi Gabbay, the leader of Biran’s party, joined the assault on Jeremy Corbyn by cutting off ties with the British Labour leader over his alleged “hatred” of Israel and “hostility” to Jews.

Some of the Israeli delegation attended the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s fringe meeting at the conference.

One of them appealed during the event for “help” speaking against the BDS movement.

In this clip from the finished Al Jazeera film, Labour Friends of Israel activist Aaron Simons discusses with some of the delegation whether or not they should wear “Young Labour, Israel” T-shirts to a meeting of Labour Friends of Palestine.

“These are our spies,” he says, apparently light-heartedly, “which is why you can’t wear that T-shirt, because then everyone will know.”


One of the Israeli delegation, Michal Zilberberg, then replies, apparently seriously: “Well you know I was an intelligence officer, a spy. For four years. I can get the intel for you, no worries.”

In the film, Zilberberg (now a lobbyist for the Israeli Labor Party in Europe) says that “Shai is the head of the delegation.”

However, in the transcript, Rose tells Robin, “I am the delegation” and that it was “a JLM delegation” and that her group had paid for everything and “ran all the logistics, set up all the meetings.”

But Rose confirms that the delegation had been Masot’s “idea originally, but he couldn’t own it because the embassy can’t do it now.”

In the transcript, Rose slams Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and his close ally John McDonnell: “as far as I’m concerned they’re not the Labour Party that I’m part of; they’re completely irrelevant to my life … they’re has-beens.”

A spokesperson for Corbyn declined to comment. A spokesperson for McDonnell did not reply to a request for comment.



After Masot’s plot to “take down” a British minister critical of Israel was exposed by Al Jazeera, Israeli ambassador Mark Regev apologized.

UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told Parliament that Masot’s “cover” had been “well and truly blown.”

It is a common practice for intelligence agencies to disguise their spies as diplomats.

MI5, Britain’s main domestic spy agency, defines espionage to include, “seeking to influence decision makers and opinion formers to benefit the interests of a foreign power.”

All the evidence points to Masot attempting to use the Jewish Labour Movement, Labour Friends of Israel and perhaps other groups to influence decision makers in the Labour Party for the benefit of Israel.

When the UK recently expelled 23 Russian diplomats over the poisoning in Sailsbury, Johnson said they were “probably spies masquerading as diplomats.”

Inadvertently or otherwise, the foreign secretary’s remarks in Parliament about Masot hint at the same.
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Of course there is homegrown anti-Semitism but Jew hate is resurgent today because of increasingly large islamic communities and the urge among indigenous populations and leaders to appease them.



Many of the "Palestinian" cheerleaders in Britain are Pakistani. The anti-Semitism is a vote-winner for Labour.



Blind spot. Pakistan/India partition mimicked the 1947 Palestine partition.

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