Remembrance Alliance

As any informed voter has known for many years, around 80 per cent of Conservative MPs are members of that Likud-affiliated, and Israeli Government-funded, organisation, Conservative Friends of Israel. That organisation has never made any secret of its hold over that party.

Yet the Conservative Party has never adopted the definition of anti-Semitism that is promoted, with far less success than the BBC would have you believe, by the self-styled, Likud-affiliated, and Israeli Government-funded "International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance".

Instead, it was the Labour Party that yesterday became the only organisation or institution in the world to have adopted that definition since the enactment of the Nation-State Law, by which Israel has formally declared itself to be an apartheid state.

Like the Conservative Party, what was then the dominant right wing of the Labour Party and of the trade unions strongly supported apartheid South Africa, leaving opposition to such peripheries as Tony Benn, Diane Abbott, Bernie Grant, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone, George Galloway, and the Durham Miners' Association.

But even Denis Thatcher's heavy business interests in South Africa, although they dictated policy as surely as Philip May's heavy involvement in the arming of Saudi Arabia dictates policy today, never caused the Conservative Party to adopt the ideological basis of apartheid as its own ideology, such that deviation from it would have been expulsionable.

Nor did the Labour Party, despite the pecuniary interests, the Cold War zealotry, and the plain old racism of many of its leading figures.

Yesterday, however, Labour went so far as to proscribe, inter alia, the recitation  of the mere facts about the events of 1948. It is as if the old theory that the Boers had arrived before the Bantu in the Cape had been so canonised.

And for what? It is already clear that those who have engineered this coup will never be satisfied until Jeremy Corbyn is gone. Taking his economic policies with him. That is what this is about. Corbyn's economic policies. 

And with them, the idea that there ought to be any debate on economic policy. A debate that, as on foreign policy, Britain did not have at all for 21 years until Corbyn emerged as a realistic candidate for Leader of the Labour Party.

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