500 Labour Party members have now signed this petition telling NEC Israel is a racist endeavour.
I will know in the next few days if the Party will proceed with disciplinary proceedings against me for “anti-Semitism” and “bringing Labour into disrepute”.
See my response to the allegations here.
Here is signer Bronwyn Wilson of Northern Ireland’s letter to the Jon Lansman and the NEC supporting my complaint against Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) and Labour Friends of Israel (LFoI):
Dear Mr Lansman,
I had asked Peter Gregson to forward the email below on my behalf to all members of the NEC as I am away from home, without access to a computer, and have difficulty doing anything other than the basics on my phone. I am, however, capable of forwarding same to the one recipient, yourself, who has rejected receipt of it on the grounds that you do not wish to personally engage with Mr Gregson at this juncture (despite him being a paid up member of Momentum).
Accordingly, I now personally submit this to you for your consideration as I believe this issue is one that requires urgent attention as it is pivotal to the success or demise of the socialist project that millions are now desperately relying upon.
Bronagh Wilson
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
—– Forwarded message —–
From: “Bronagh Wilson” <bronagh_wilson@yahoo.co.uk>
To: “legal_queries@labour.org.uk” <legal_queries@labour.org.uk>
Sent: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 13:38
Subject: Complaint against LFI and JLM
In support of Pete Gregson’s lodged complaint re the FoI and JLM, I would like to add the following: it is beyond my comprehension why the Labour Party would continue to indulge these supporters of Zionist apartheid. Zionism is an inherently racist (including anti-Semitic racist) ideology, the principal aim of which is to enable the colonisation of a land at the grave expense of its indigenous population. Anti-Semitism is abhorrent, as all racism is abhorrent. The fact that Jews were subject to the worst crime in history (in a highly competitive field for that “honour”) in no way excuses some Jews from now committing the appalling crimes which continue to be inflicted on the Palestinians. Where is the sense in continuing to indulge these bad faith hypocrites who are determined to undermine everything that the LP now stands, and should stand, for? LFI should be, and must become, an oxymoron. The plight of the Palestinians is becoming increasingly desperate. The prisoners in Gaza, deprived of the essentials of life, routinely and regularly massacred, who can neither sustain life within nor leave their prison, what is going to become of them? It can only be a matter of time before the most shameful catastrophe engulfs them. And we as a supposedly democratic socialist party should be friends with their tormentors? Where is your sense of morality, where is your sense of socialist solidarity with the oppressed everywhere? For goodness sake, open your eyes and minds and have a bit of wit. Not only is the Zionist position morally repugnant but manifestly and grossly hypocritical to boot. What would be the position of the LFI and JLM were it the Jews of Palestine who were corralled in the Gaza hellhole? Think on, Zionists care about nobody and nothing apart from effecting their ethno supremacist project. Not even for fellow Jews who dissent from any connection with their pernicious goals. By far the worst anti-Semitism I have witnessed over recent years has been that directed towards those Jews who refuse to collude with this obscenity (Michael Rosen deserves a medal for the vile abuse he has endured in fighting against this scourge). I truly despair at this rank cowardice and idiocy from the leadership which has allowed this Orwellian inversion of the truth to become established wisdom: that Jeremy Corbyn has encouraged and supported endemic anti-Semitism to thrive in the Party. Don’t be ridiculous. If this boil is not lanced now (as it should have been at the very beginning of this farrago of nonsense), you are going to enable these utterly unprincipled fifth columnists to destroy any hope of fulfilling the societal transformation that so many of us desperately need. So much for the adoption of the full IHRA definition and examples putting this issue to bed. Predictably, and as widely predicted, this has just fired the starting gun on a doubling down of this pernicious nonsense. I have no wish to be suspended or expelled from the Party but, believe me, that would be a very small price to pay for refusing to be cowed into silence regarding the truth of the Palestinians’ experience. The Labour Party can never be a vehicle for progressive change if it cowers before the likes of the racist bullies who infest the LFI and JLM. Although it may be the case that there are those amongst its members who can be persuaded to reconsider their allegiances, the time to resolve their cognitive dissonance is now before they are permanently tainted by their connection with these fundamentally racist organisations.
I urge you to reconsider this complaint at http://www.kidsnotsuits.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Complaint-Against-JLM-and-LFoI.pdf because of the ongoing danger the JLM and the LFoI represents to the Party.
Yours
Bronagh Wilson (Northern Ireland CLP)