Labour suspends notorious anti-Zionist activist
Moshe Machover, a member of Hampstead and Kilburn Labour Party, was administratively suspended on 30 November over allegations including articles had written on “weaponising of antisemitism”.
In a statement he said: “I Joined the LabourPartyin2016,whenitopenedits doors to socialists — who are, by definition, anti-imperialists.
“IregretIamnowamongthenumerous victims of a purge driven by rightwing heresy hunters, bureaucratic enemies of free speech. But at least I can use this occasion to promote the views I have been advocating for many years; in particular, socialist opposition to the Zionist project of colonisation and the Jewish-supremacist regime of the Israeli settler state.”
Mr Machover — who escaped expulsion from Labour in 2017 after a controversial essay he wrote about the Nazis and Zionists was distributed at party conference — published the letter sent to him this week from the party’s Governance and Legal Unit informing him of disciplinary proceedings.
Articles he wrote for the Weekly Worker — the online paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain — including one titled ‘Weaponising Antisemitism’, were among the evidence, along with online activity he had taken part in. He wrote of the “absurdly stretched definition of ‘antisemitism’ used by the antiCorbyncampaign.”Headded:“Thedefinition, promoted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, is pathetically deficient.”
The Tel-Aviv born activist also wrote about the “sources of hostility to the Corbyn leadership, which fuelled and motivated the campaign of alleged ‘antisemitism’ against this leadership andthepartyasawhole.” InNovember the JC revealed Mr Machover had told a meeting of the Labour Left Alliance group he was “proud to share a panel” with ex-Labour MP Chris Williamson — as well as Tony Greenstein, who was expelled by Labour.