Using anti-semitism to destroy Corbyn’

THE right-wing media’s disgraceful weaponising of the anti-semitism issue as their chosen approach to destroy Jeremy Corbyn and Labour’s electoral chances is an outrage in a democratic society.

Does anyone really believe that if Corbyn were to take action, as his critics keep demanding, the establishment assault would then cease?

Not a bit of it and this is because their scorched earth assault has little if anything to do with anti-semitism and everything to do with the establishment’s ingenious decision (from their viewpoint) to milk the anti-semitism issue for all its worth, as their best line for destroying Corbyn.

Some commentators would clearly welcome ritualistic sacrifices of innocent Labour Party members to satisfy the odious blood-lust of this unholy establishment alliance.

But Labour should never kowtow to bogus charges of anti-semitism, or it would merely be colluding with these gutter attacks on a principled politician – Corbyn – with an unrivalled life-long commitment to anti-racism.

There is an anti-semitism problem in Labour, and, of course, it must and will be rooted out.

But what we conveniently don’t hear from the establishment attack dogs is that anti-semitism is a problem of society in general, that anti-semitism is no worse in Labour than anywhere else, more so it is far less of a problem in Labour than in virtually all other spheres of society and its incidence in Labour has actually decreased since Corbyn became Labour leader.

But listening to the orchestrated assault on Labour, you’d never have any idea that this is the factual situation.

But hey, why let the facts get in the way of an effective propaganda assault?

Nearly a century ago in the

1924 general election, Labour was decimated by the lies contained in the Daily Mail’s fictional Mother of All Smears, the vile Zinoviev letter – and only subsequently did historians discover the truth.

Today’s shameful establishment attacks on Corbyn over antisemitism, “communism” and the like are in exactly the same ballpark; and any genuine democracy will never allow an outrage comparable to 1924 to happen again.

Thankfully, however, increasing numbers of thinking people are waking up to the flagrant Machiavellian duplicity of this squalid anti-Corbyn alliance.

All fair-minded people will be waking voters up to these disreputable shenanigans right up to the next election.