The vile right-wing MP Frank Field has resigned the Labour whip. Hurrah, don't let the door hit you in the arse on your way out. The truth is that Field should never have been a Labour MP to begin with, and he has jumped ship now before his party members got shut of him. Field is a vile right winger not just in Labour Party terms, but in almost any terms. The atmosphere in the party is much healthier without him. We can only hope that those who think like him clear off as soon as possible too.
Field's accusation of anti-Semitism as the basis of him resigning is clearly hogwash. He needed something to hang his resignation on, and anti-Semitism is the hook upon which the Labour Right and their Zionist allies have chosen to hang their opposition to Corbyn, and the vast majority of party members.
Field's charge that the party is a force for anti-Semitism, is clearly nonsense, and everyone knows its nonsense. But, it is no more nonsense than the other such accusations that have been systematically levelled at Corbyn and the party over the last few weeks, as part of a concerted, and increasingly hysterical propaganda campaign. Field's accusation is no more nonsense, for example, than the charge made by former Chief Rabbi, and ultra rightwinger, Johnathan Sacks, who ridiculously claimed that statements made by Jeremy Corbyn five years ago, were the worst example of racism since Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood Speech fifty years ago. They were clearly so bad that it has taken Sacks five years before he was even able to make any comment upon them! In fact, Corbyn's statement was not anti-Semitic at all, but was a comment about particular Zionists. So unless Sacks wants to claim that all Jews are Zionists, which would thereby mean that any criticism of Zionism would be equated with anti-Semitism, his accusation is clearly just a piece of hysteria.
It follows on from the similarly hysterical and co-ordinated front page stories by the three Jewish newspapers ridiculously claiming that Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party represents an "existential threat" to British Jews. Even some representatives of the Tory media that has given such attacks full rein over the last few months, were led to point out that perhaps that went rather a little too far into the realm of hyperbole. What it means is that they are equating Corbyn with Hitler - something of course, which no one criticising the racist policies of the Israeli government is allowed to do, on pain of accusations of anti-Semitism!
What they are doing is essentially just trolling. As with internet trolls, or as with Donald Trump, who many of these opponents of Corbyn associate and identify with, they simply throw out one unsubstantiated and ridiculous charge after another. Every time one charge is shown to be nonsense, they simply throw out another, facilitated by the Tory media. The charges are so clearly ludicrous, and the fact that the Labour Right are at the forefront of propagating them, that it is clear what their real purpose is. Having repeatedly failed to be able to present any kind of credible political alternative to Corbyn, having continually failed to be able to mobilise forces behind them, and increasingly seeing the writing on the wall, as the masses of party members in the constituencies begin to show them the door, they are implementing a scorched earth policy, trying to do as much damage as possible before they disappear into oblivion.
The Labour right and their Zionist allies (many of whom are acknowledged Tories, who will drop them if they were to get what they want) obviously think that Labour voters are so stupid. They seem to think that with the help of the Tory media they can simply pump out these ridiculous charges and Labour voters will take them as good coin. Labour voters are not that stupid. They know that Jeremy Corbyn is a decent bloke. They know his whole life has been devoted to fighting bigotry, oppression and racism of all kinds. Its Corbyn that for the last 40 odd years has been on the streets actively fighting the racists and anti-Semites when the Labour Right and their allies were nowhere to be seen, and indeed, some of whom gave a free pass to racists like Trump, and Orban etc.
If the Labour right had any actual contact with ordinary working-class people and Labour voters, they would know that they are not so stupid as to be taken in by these increasingly hysterical attacks, that become ever more hysterical, the less they have any impact. In fact, the Labour Right, and their Zionist allies are doing Corbyn and the left in the party a great favour by these ridiculous attacks, because the more hysterical them become, the more Labour voters, and workers more generally see them for what they are, and see the Tory media that provides them with a free platform for what it is. It means workers and Labour voters can more easily see the rabidly biased nature of the Tory media, and the desperation of the Labour Right, as it ponders its consignment to the dustbin of history. The more hysterical and removed from reality these attacks become, the more Labour voters and other workers will be led to question all of the other ridiculous charges that the Tory media level against Corbyn and Labour, and their biased reporting of other issues.
Unfortunately, the other consequence of these hysterical attacks is that it undermines the real fight against anti-Semitism, but then the Zionists have always been prepared to subordinate the fight against anti-Semitism, in order to promote Zionism, and to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. The sooner these elements follow Field into the wilderness the better.
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