Palestine

Does Jess Phillips Perform a Sociopathic “Some of My Best Friends are Black” on the Gaza Genocide?

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The Labour pro-Zionist politician, Ms Jess Phillips clung on to her seat in Birmingham Yardley by the tip of her finger tips in the July 2024 UK general election. Her tally was just 700 votes more than her rival, the Workers Party of Britain’s Jody McIntyre. This result was a far cry from her winning margin in the last general election in 2019 of more than 13,000 votes. Naturally in the immediate aftermath of her victory she turned on her adversaries supporters. In her palliate victory speech, Phillips implies that her detractors find it hard to deal to deal with a strong woman. Phillips seems to be hard pressed to understand that McIntryre and admittedly some of his passionate supporters were spurred to enter the election race after seeing the Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer glowingly and cruelly endorse the genocide in Gaza, Palestine in October 2023.

Live on camera, the now victorious British leader, Starmer had endorsed the Zionist army cutting off electricity and water. Furthermore, in the same month he denounced calls for a ceasefire as playing into the hands of HAMAS. More so, it is not lost on many people that Phillips had spent the Jeremy Corbyn years, that is, the years when Corbyn led the Labour Party between 2015 and 2020, undermining his leadership in cahoots with other establishment politicians and also the mainstream media. At one stage she boasted that she blasted one of Corbyn’s long time loyalists, the most racially maligned politician in the UK, Diane Abbott to “f*ck off”. As such, she further cemented her role as a leading darling of the Westminster elite when she claimed she would solemnly “knife” [Jeremy Corbyn] “in the front”.

The genocide in Gaza has now claimed the lives of tens of thousands lives and visited total destruction on the Gaza strip. Continue reading →

Jeremy Corbyn, his Zionism and Malcolm X’s Knife.

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Lost in the continued maelstrom over the extent of anti-semitism in Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the British Labour Party between 2015 and 2020 is a very important question: what exactly is Corbyn’s position on the Zionist colonial entity? While leader, Corbyn “rarely spoke” about the Zionist colonisation of Palestine, that is the Palestinian cause. Yet on three occasions he revealed his actual stance. Herein, I show far from being any kind of anti-Zionist, Corbyn was very loyal to and appreciative of the Zionist-colonial project in Palestine.

Firstly, within a year of Corbyn becoming leader of the Labour Party in September 2015 the Blairite old guard, which had dominated the Party since the mid-1990s, were agitating to cast him asunder and rid of him. In the summer of 2016 Corbyn faced a leadership challenge and during a debate with challenger Owen Smith (Member of Parliament for Pontypridd), Corbyn waxed lyrical about the Zionist colonial-settler state. Continue reading →

Woke vs anti-Woke: What Priyamvada Gopal and Douglas Murray have in Common

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A colourful Twitter beef that caught the eye this summer in the wake of the George Floyd murder at the hands of racist police officers, pitted the esteemed University of Cambridge Professor, Priyamvada Gopal against the right-wing Etonian author Douglas Murray. Gopal has positioned herself as the British liberal establishment’s leading connoisseur for all currents that oppose imperialism and require decolonisation. She published her tomb, Insurgent Empire to rave reviews. While Murray’s bestselling books on immigration and the culture wars has earned him millions of followers. His book, The Strange Death of Europe is one of the leading go-to books for right-wingers on contemporary immigration.

The pithy indictments they fired at each other on Twitter were standard schoolyard barbs. Murray sanctimoniously sneered at Gopal spending time on Twitter as compensation for her lack of academic repertoire, while Gopal predictably retorted that Murray finds it difficult a woman of colour lectures at Cambridge. Their adversarial tweets were not only aimed at each other but also clearly played to their on-line base. Gopal’s to the “woke” generation, Murray’s to the Trumpian/Brexit anti-woke masses. The ‘woke’ term emanated in the United States to help give expression to those who were historically marginalised and enslaved.

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When Jeremy Corbyn endorsed Zionism and the British Empire

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One naturally assumes by virtue of the vitriol aimed at the former leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn there was indeed, inter alia, a heroic anti-imperialist leader ready to take over the helms of the British state and begin to pull the nation away from centuries of imperialist foreign policy and the attendant gung ho military belligerence. The simple logic behind this assumption is that if the right-wing media despise you with the venom shown to Mr. Corbyn during his leadership between 2015 and 2020, then there must be something worthy of this vitriol or at the very least he must be beholden to convictions genuinely hostile to the old British imperialist order.    

Among the pejoratives and derogations thrown at him over the course of his five-year tenure was that he was somehow an anti-semite or a facilitator of anti-semitism. The accusation continues to be insinuated and made against Corbyn and the way he ran the Labour Party even after a new leadership has now taken over the helm and direction of the party. In this essay, I show that far from being any kind of anti-Zionist, Corbyn was very loyal to the Labour Party’s historic position on Zionism.

Before becoming leader of the Labour Party, Mr. Corbyn could always be seen opposing British and American military campaigns and showing solidarity with oppressed groups. Among the latter are the Palestinians who were mostly ethnically cleansed from their lands by British trained Zionist militias in 1947-48 to create the new state of Israel. Zionist supporters have adopted a strategy to deflect attention away from the ethnic cleansing foundations of the Zionist state and its continued campaigns of occupation and argue most criticism of the Zionist colonial entity is anti-semitic.

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