Labour Representation Committee (LRC) Heads For Oblivion as it Backs ‘Labour Against the Witch-Hunt’.

Top LRC Activists.

Labour Against the Witch-hunt, an alliance of Jackie Walker, The Weekly Worker (CPGB – Provisional Central Committee) and the Monster Raving Tony Greenstein Party is a at the fringes of the fringes.

This is from its recent (a few dozen strong) conference resolution,

Position agreed unanimously at LAW’s conference on February 2 2019.

The slow coup against Jeremy Corbyn

The war of attrition against Corbyn as Labour leader, carried out by an alliance of the majority of the Parliamentary Labour Party, the Party bureaucracy, the Israeli state, the pro-Israel lobby and the mainstream media, began even before he was elected. Corbyn was portrayed as a terrorist sympathiser, a security risk and an all-round danger to society.

That somebody like Greenstein is involved, and that the campaign makes statements like this, means, simply, that nobody with an ounce of sense will have anything to do with the group.

Not so the Labour Representation Committee.

They welcome them as affiliates and give their policies support.

LAW stands alongside a long list, including Gerry Downing (as an individual), Labour Party Marxists (the Weekly Worker wearing another cap) the New Communist Party, Britain’s Posadist (in fact a rather pleasant woman), the Brent Soviet, the late Ted Grant’s followers in Socialist Appeal, and other political confetti.

LAW stands out for its relentless, “absolute Anti-Zionism’. It has managed to piss off a lengthy list of would-be supporters, from Marc Wadsworth to  Michael Mansfield QC – who no longer have anything to with the clique.

Greenstein himself is launching yet another ‘crowd funding’ for a legal action against his numerous enemies.

Perhaps he would do better spending his time on holiday, as he did last summer, in Italy.

Yesterday this came out,

The Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) has written an open letter to John McDonnell, urging the Shadow Chancellor to “stop the double speak” or resign.

Stop the Double Speak John McDonnellTell the Labour Representation Committee conference this weekend that by referring to antisemitism as smears, they are the problem. Or resign from the LRC.

Dear John McDonnell,

We write to you as Jewish and non-Jewish members, supporters and former supporters of the Labour Party – but supported by the wider Jewish community. This weekend you will be addressing the conference of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC), which you are President.

Just this week you were clear that allegations of anti-Jewish racism in our party are real and not smears. The LRC believe that they have the right, without any input from the Jewish community to define antisemitism. For the conference this weekend the LRC National Executive have published a 48 point statement for debate and discussion, several points are dedicated to antisemitism and Jews. The language used mocks Jews who raise antisemitism and consistently claim that we are acting in bad faith. The amendments published that have been proposed by ‘Labour Against the Witchhunt’ in the name of expelled Labour member Tony Greenstein are even worse. LRC exists within and nurtures a culture of antisemitism.

LRC are affiliated with both ‘Labour Against the Witchhunt’ and ‘Jewish Voice for Labour’ (JVL). Both organisations ridicule and minimise the real lived experiences of victims of antisemitism. Just this week also on LBC Radio, Naomi Wimborne-Iddrisi of JVL openly mocked our Parliamentary Chair Luciana Berger who has been a victim of death threats. Neither bodies nor individuals associated with these organisations should be given a platform and you should not be indulging these conspiracists.

The LRC completely reject the IHRA definition of antisemitism or any definition that the victims of antisemitism, the Jewish community, feel reflect the prejudice they experience. This approach is in no way consistent with any established conventions within anti-racism movements.

Such a culture feeds an environment whereby Jewish MPs such as Luciana Berger receive death threats, abuse and threats of violence. It feeds a culture whereby Jews across the party are targeted for deselection, sanction or intimidation. It feeds a culture of not believing Jews when they are on the receiving end of hate. It feeds the cancer of antisemitism in our party.
It is not consistent to be honestly robust in an LBC interview without being equally robust to your own supporters at the LRC.

We hope and expect that you will be clear to the LRC that you will say that ‘Labour Against the Witchhunt’ and ‘Jewish Voice for Labour’ are corrosive to our values and that the LRC should not work with them or indeed anyone suspended or expelled from the Labour Party.

LRC are feeding the problem and unless they change their position of condoning and nurturing this racism in our party then you cannot and should not have anything further to do with them and they also should have no place in the Labour Party.

We look forward to hearing your comments this weekend.

Now this is one of the issues in the controversy.

Labour’s NEC blocks parliamentary candidate over tweets about Hitler and Jewish MP

The NEC decided Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt brought the Labour Party into disrepute.

Labour’s ruling body has decided not to back a woman to be a parliamentary candidate over tweets about Hitler and the “Zionist sympathies” of a Jewish MP.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) decided not to endorse Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt to stand for Labour in South Thanet on the basis that she had brought the party into disrepute.

Ms Gordon-Nesbitt was selected in April, having joining Labour when Jeremy Corbyn became leader.

But, writing on Facebook on Tuesday, she said the NEC had decided not to back her over tweets posted from a think tank she set up which defended Ken Livingstone and Jackie Walker over allegations of antisemitism.

One tweet posted from The Centre for Cultural Change Twitter account asked: “Has anyone looked into Hitler’s policy on Zionism? Might not be mutually exclusive with his later actions #Scapegoating #Corbyn.”

Another tweet called into question the “Zionist sympathies” of John Bercow, the speaker of the House of Commons, who is Jewish.

 

 

This is the reply from the LRC Conference today:

Good to hear @johnmcdonnellMP saying he has stated his support for me publicly. #LRC #ReinstateRebecca
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— Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt 🌹 (@RGordon_Nesbitt) February 9, 2019