Get With The Pogrom

The glorious names of Jews shine like the Sun from the annals of the American Civil Rights movement, and of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. They were classified as white both under the Jim Crow laws and under apartheid, which settles that question once and for all. Many anti-apartheid Jewish veterans were forthright in support of Jeremy Corbyn, arguably even after he had ceased to deserve it to quite that extent.

By the very starkest of contrasts, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has no interest in the economic equality without which there can be no other, it has done nothing to protect the human rights of the victims of austerity, and it is infamous for sacking its black and disabled staff first. But its report to order on Corbyn saved its Blairite hide from abolition, although the Government has since hilariously sacked that report's authors, anyway.

That report is still being waved by the weirdo cultists who insist, as if it mattered now, that there would have been some kind of pogrom against the Jews if Corbyn had become Prime Minister. Yet it is the Government that they support that is legislating for a pogrom against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people. 

Now, I have not lived for as long as I have in the countryside, much less have I been politically active here for most of that time, without developing some misgivings about certain GRT cultural practices. And the Police themselves do not want the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. But once it were the law, then someone would use it. And no one deserves to have their home torched by the State.

Yet there is at best silence from the interfering Israeli Embassy, the Chief Rabbinate, the Senior Rabbinate, the Board of Deputies, the Jewish Leadership Council, the Campaign Against Antisemitism, the Community Security Trust, The Jewish Chronicle, the Jewish Telegraph, and the Jewish News, all of which give enthusiastic support to the Government in general. The Jewish "communal" bodies are only an ethnic minority when it suits them, which is not very often. For solidarity in the struggle, then you need those Jews who stood with Corbyn.

Most of Britain's very few Jews have voted Conservative for decades, even when the Leader of the Labour Party has been Jewish, and most of the rest will have supported Corbyn if only for the want of anyone more left-wing, so Keir Starmer will already have lost Labour more Jewish voters than he might ever have hoped to gain it.

The only notable exception is John Bercow. As soon as he was refused a peerage, then we knew that he would try and reenter the Commons, and as soon as Starmer replaced Corbyn, then we knew that he would try and become a Labour MP. He obviously wants Islington North, but I challenge him to declare his interest in the apparently totemic seat of North West Durham. Half the Labour Party has moved here, but none of them would be as acceptable to Starmer as the former Secretary of the Race and Repatriation Committee of the Monday Club would be. Only an ethnic minority when it suits them, indeed.

Meanwhile, Starmer has lost Labour a million Kashmiri voters, if only to abstention, and largely in the key electoral battlegrounds of the West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the more staunchly Lancastrian outlying areas of Greater Manchester. And if the Blairite Electoral Commission ever did allow Black Lives Matter to register as a political party, then Labour in London may as well give up and go home.

As it already may as well do everywhere, since no one imagines for one moment that there might be a Labour whip to vote against Third Reading of the Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill. Labour is unlikely even to abstain on the unleashing of a State pogrom against GRT people. After all, to do so would officially be anti-Semitic, since that pogrom is effectively being egged on by the interfering Israeli Embassy, the Chief Rabbinate, the Senior Rabbinate, the Board of Deputies, the Jewish Leadership Council, the Campaign Against Antisemitism, the Community Security Trust, The Jewish Chronicle, the Jewish Telegraph, and the Jewish News. But there are other Jews in Britain. Where are our freedom riders?