A poisonous agenda

Did you hear the one about the delayed eight-year shock caused by what a holocaust survivor said?

There’s no punchline, and no, it’s not remotely funny.

Eight years ago, holocaust survivor Hajo Mayer appeared at a holocaust memorial event. Jeremy Corbyn invited him to attend. Whilst there, he made an allegedly “anti-semitic” comment, in which he described Israel as a racist state.

Jeremy Corbyn wasn’t there at the time when these comments were made as he had left early. If anyone was offended at the time, they never said so. The comment passed unnoticed.

Then, eight years later, as if by magic, certain Labour members decided the comments by Hajo Mayer were anti-semitic, and were very offensive. Retrospective anti-semitism if you will.

Jeremy Corbyn was castigated for sharing a stage with an anti-semite, which is peculiar, because when the comments were made, he wasn’t there. He apparently was responsible for other people’s comments when he wasn’t there. Bizarre to say the least.

Hajo Mayer is now dead. A holocaust survivor has been dubbed an anti-semite for his comments and, as the dead can’t sue, he is obviously unable to defend himself.

As said earlier, he described Israel as a racist state. As this state bulldozes homes and olive groves, ejecting the native population in order to build settler homes in order to move anyone of the Jewish religion from anywhere in the world to live on that land, against all tenets of international law, is it unfair to describe such a state as racist?

I would say under the circumstances, what he said was fair comment. And now that Israel is effectively an apartheid state, it is fair to say that Israel is officially a racist state.

Almost all those who have been dubbed “antisemites” have one thing in common; they support the Palestinian cause. This is obviously less than a coincidence. They castigate Labour for not adopting the IHRA definition in full, when they are well aware that a key part of that definition makes it difficult to criticise the Israeli state and is against free speech.

This is a poisonous agenda to remove Mr Corbyn and the left from the Labour Party and it needs to be called out.