{"id":29530,"date":"2024-02-15T10:14:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T10:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=29530"},"modified":"2024-02-15T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T10:36:47","slug":"ed-balls-accidentally-admits-to-labours-weaponisation-of-anti-semitism-i-mean-we-already-knew-but-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/15\/ed-balls-accidentally-admits-to-labours-weaponisation-of-anti-semitism-i-mean-we-already-knew-but-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Balls accidentally admits to Labour’s weaponisation of anti-Semitism I mean, we already knew, but still…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following article was written by and posted on Ricky from Council Estate Media<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

ED BALLS ACCIDENTALLY ADMITS TO LABOUR’S WEAPONISATION OF ANTI-SEMITISM I MEAN, WE ALREADY KNEW, BUT STILL…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Former Labour MP Ed Balls, the world\u2019s most unbearably smug centrist, has just admitted to something we\u2019ve been saying for years: that Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s purge of alleged anti-Semites has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. It is factionalism and he uses anti-Semitism as his cover.<\/p>\n

As many of us have pointed out, the cynical weaponisation of anti-Semitism is, in fact, anti-Semitic, and it is now coming back to bite the Labour leader.<\/p>\n

On Good Morning Britain, Ed Balls was\u00a0discussing Graham Jones<\/a>, the second Labour candidate to be suspended in a matter of days due to accusations of anti-Semitism from Labour Friends of Israel and other pro-Israel lobby groups (Americans, think AIPAC, but in the UK).<\/p>\n

What makes these recent suspensions interesting is the accused were in Starmer\u2019s faction of Labour and as such, would normally be allowed to get away with just about anything.<\/p>\n

Socialist Andy McDonald was suspended from Labour for saying he wanted everyone \u201cfrom the river to the sea\u201d to live together peacefully, but as Kevin Schofield\u00a0pointed out<\/a>, the Labour right have been allowed to say all sorts of offensive things.<\/p>\n

Ed Balls defended the suspension of Andy McDonald and Kate Osamor because Starmer defined his leadership as \u201cclearing up the anti-Semitism of the Jeremy Corbyn period.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Balls took a different position when it came to Graham Jones because he has the right sort of politics:<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s stand back here and get some facts… Graham Jones, I know him really well. He is not a Corbynite., not hard-left, absolutely not anti-Israel.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Not long ago, Starmerists would have said anyone defending a person suspended for anti-Semitism is also guilty of anti-Semitism. They would have kicked them out of the Labour Party, but obviously, Ed Balls is not going to be kicked out because he\u2019s on team Starmer.<\/p>\n

By saying Jones is not a Corbynite, hard-left or anti-Israel, Balls is admitting those are things you\u2019re not allowed to be in the Labour Party. He\u2019s admitting you can\u2019t share the politics of the enormously popular ex-leader (politics the Labour Party was founded on). He\u2019s admitting you\u2019re not allowed to have socialist views (this is what centrists mean by \u201chard left\u201d). Most tellingly of all, he\u2019s admitting you\u2019re not allowed to be critical of the Israeli state in any meaningful way (this is what he means by \u201canti-Israel\u201d).<\/p>\n

Starmer introduced these unofficial rules to stamp out socialist voices and crush the membership so no one could stand in the way of him turning Labour into a pro-corporate party. He knew that most of his critics cared about the plight of the Palestinians and it was easy for him to pretend they were anti-Semites. This was his excuse for a purge.<\/p>\n

The miscalculation Starmer made is that Labour Friends of Israel and other pro-Israel lobby groups are not interested in his neoliberal factionalism, they\u2019re interested in stamping out\u00a0any<\/em>\u00a0criticism of Israel, regardless of which faction the person belongs to. This means the Starmer Project is now eating itself.<\/p>\n

None of those things Ed Balls highlighted above would be justification to expel someone from Labour, but he admitted they are considered justification by the leadership. He also admitted the disciplinary process is politically influenced, even though the EHRC introduced legally binding measures to ensure the process is non-political. As many of us know, this is irrelevant because the whole point of the EHRC investigation was to make Corbyn look bad.<\/p>\n

Under Starmer\u2019s unofficial rules, a majority of the Labour membership would be expelled if they expressed their political views and they would likely be branded anti-Semites for objecting to genocide. The EHRC, which was so mad about alleged political interference under Corbyn, obviously couldn\u2019t give a shit now the right sort of people are being expelled.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re still not convinced this is all so cynical, consider this: according to the Telegraph, there is now a hit list of MPs, including Zarah Sultana, Thangam Debonnaire, and Shabana Mahmood, who have two things in common: they\u2019re critical of Israel and they\u2019re non-white.<\/p>\n

There is a massive stench of racism here. The Labour Party has been expelling black and Muslim MPs left, right and centre, and punishing anyone who dares speak up for Palestinians. Meanwhile, the Labour leader can support the withdrawal of humanitarian aid to Gaza and that\u2019s apparently fine. The Labour Party is being racist under the guise of anti-racism and it\u2019s becoming impossible to deny.<\/p>\n

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