Inspired By Their Zionist Masters?

I remember when Conservative MPs used to say far stronger things from the same position than have ever been uttered by Apsana Begum or Claudia Webbe.

But with the Palestinian cause at the front and centre of the global struggle against racism and imperialism, to exclude views such as Begum's and Webbe's would be to exclude almost all politically conscious and active people of colour in the world. Upper caste Hindu supremacists would be the only significant exception.

It would also exclude one of the great pillars of the anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggle, the Jewish Left, as well as at least half of Orthodox Jews in the world, including by far the fastest growing section of the Jewish population of Britain. To both of those, the identification of Zionism as fundamental to Jewish identity is anathema.

Although it would appear that the matter was not being pressed, Begum and Webbe are both in breach of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism, by which all members of the Labour Party are now bound on pain of expulsion, and which constitutes a denial of BAME, migrant and refugee experience of the kind that leads to the Windrush scandal and to the fire at Grenfell Tower.

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