Manny from heaven
Liverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger with her newborn son, Zion Benjamin Manny Goldsmith, and husband Alistair
A LABOUR constituency meeting held to discuss replacing Jewish MP Luciana Berger was chaired by the academic exposed by the JC for promoting Rothschild conspiracy theories on a show broadcast by David Icke.
Dr Alex Scott-Samuel hosted the meeting on Monday to discuss whether the Liverpool Wavertree party, which he chairs, should use an all-women shortlist of candidates to replace Ms Berger, who was among the MPs to quit Labour last month, attacking the party’s “institutional antisemitism”.
Local activist Margaret Tyson — whom the JC exposed for alleging Ms Berger supported the “Zionist Israeli government” whose “Nazi masters taught them well” — was also present at the meeting at the Devonshire House Hotel, sitting in the front row. Labour pledged to launch an investigation into Ms Tyson’s remarks on February 18 after the exposure of numerous social media posts in which she cited Zionism, Israel and Nazis to attack Ms Berger.
Ms Tyson has also been out campaigning with the local party in recent weeks.
Local activists contacted the JC to express concern that neither Dr ScottSamuel nor Ms Tyson had received any sanction for their conduct.
“It’s actually quite scary,” one Wavertree Labour member said. “Labour have never been in the spotlight more than they are now over allegations of antisemitism and racism.
“And here we have two people from our own local party taking prominent roles in a meeting held to discuss who should replace a Jewish MP, when they should be facing an investigation that means they should really not be leading a meeting.”
Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson said last month the party was investigating some members of the Liverpool Wavertree branch over what he called the “bullying” of Ms Berger.
On Monday, at a meeting of a group of around 150 MPs and Peers in Westminster, Mr Watson said Ms Berger’s departure from Labour had been a “wake up call” about the severity of the problem.
Last month, the JC revealed Ms Tyson wrote on Facebook in November: “How can we not have empathy with Palestinians when they are not up against these murdering, Zionest (sic) bastards.
“Their NAZI masters have taught them well.”
New evidence shows Ms Tyson also wrote insults about Jewish MP Dame Louise Ellman, calling her a “disgrace”
Activist who used ‘Nazi masters’ slur when attacking Berger was also present
to “decent Jews”. Dr Scott-Samuel once shared a picture of himself meeting Mr Corbyn, saying he had discussed “victimisation of anti-Zionists” with the Labour leader.
He appeared on the Richie Allen online radio show where he was introduced as a professor of public health at the University of Liverpool, in 2017.
He said “the Rothschild family” were “behind a lot of the neo-liberal influence in the UK and US.
“And you only have to Google them to look at this — ever since they funded the Napoleonic wars and made enormous profits just over 200 year ago,” he said.
“They have a vested interest in free trade and the pursuits of neoliberalism.”
He also called the US, the UK and Israel “imperialist countries” that needed to “cease their violent activities” so there “wouldn’t be any Twin Towers or attacks on London because they are responses to our government behaving in imperialist ways”.
Asked about the conduct of Ms Tyson and Dr Scott-Samuel, a Labour spokesperson said last month: “The party takes all complaints of antisemitism extremely seriously and we are committed to challenging and campaigning against it.
“All complaints are fully investigated and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken. We can’t comment on individual cases.”