Labour figures in explosive election campaign Islamophobia scandal

Right, so for months the Labour Party has been dogged with examples of the Hierarchy of Racism that was exposed as pervading the party under Keir Starmer, as they prioritised fighting accusations of antisemitism over all other forms of racism, when of course in any sane world, such appalling conduct would be treated equally, whoever was the target. Anti-Jew racism has been a defining issue under Starmer for the Labour Party, the unequivocal Zionist dealing with that form of racism far and away above all other forms.
You would imagine, during a General Election campaign therefore, that he would be going above and beyond to try and placate voters who feel aggrieved by this, to try and appear more even handed in his approach to dealing with racism, so many Muslim voters having left the Party, not just over the Party’s appalling views on the matter of Israel and Gaza, which will be a voting issue for many voters of all faiths across the country, but in the case of Muslim voters particularly, the issue of Islamophobia has been treated as far less important than antisemitism. But no, that doesn’t appear to be Starmer’s intention and an utterly shocking example of the Hierarchy of Racism in action has literally come up within days of the election starting, this is utterly appalling and the media have totally ignored it, yet it really does nail down how pervasive racism remains under Keir Starmer and who it is aimed at and who by.
Right, so that was a short excerpt from a much longer video, which can be seen on YouTube, it’s from the Jewish Chronicle YouTube channel, which hosted a panel of Labour figures, Israel supporting Labour figures, plus the right wing Israeli resident and in according to some people ‘journalist’ Melanie Phillips, who is arguably better known for her extreme anti Muslim views, there to discuss the future for British Jews of a potential Labour government led by Zionist without qualification, Keir Starmer.
The JC’s Jake Wallis Simons hosted, and sat alongside Labour Friend of Israel and former Labour MP Louise Ellman, the Jewish Labour Movement chair, Mike Katz and Josh Simons, the director of Labour Together, the right wing Labour grouping representing MPs like Wes Streeting and Lisa Nandy, which counts amongst his board the ever pervasive Zionist Labour donor Trevor Chinn, who also financed Keir Starmer’s leadership campaign. The JC might regard this panel as representative of Labour Party Jewry, but it’s a solidly right wing panel. Nevertheless, all three of these Labour figures have questions to answer following that diatribe, given what Melanie Phillips just came out with.
This event took place mere days ago, following the announcement of the General Election and here you have the director of a group of right wing Labour MPs, the chair of the group in charge of dealing with Labour antisemitism, who spends most of his time seemingly accusing other people of being racist on social media and the former chair of LFI and another right wing former Labour MP, sitting alongside Melanie Phillips to begin with, but continuing to do so, without batting an eyelid as she said what she said.
It began with an assertion many of us would agree with, that people want Keir Starmer gone, he is Tory lite, he offers little by way of change because he doesn’t think he has to and besides which, who trusts him to keep his word after all, but it rapidly deteriorated from there.
Phillips claimed that Starmer wants to make Labour a moral party, which means it must have no issue with anti Jewish sentiment, with antisemitism and of course there is a reason the JC was hosting such an event in my view and it was to yet again put antisemitism on the table, keep the scam going of false accusation and equate antisemitism with anti Zionism. But Phillips wasn’t finished there. She said Starmer had to reconcile that with the fact he has a lot of Muslim constituents, MPs and members of the party and accused many of them as being anti Jew and anti Israel. Blatant Islamophobia therefore. Where’s the proof? And where was the reaction from the other panellists? Nothing. Sat there po-faced. Labour’s hierarchy of racism happening before your eyes folks, right there. If the shoe was on the other foot and she accused Jewish people of being amoral and racist, they would have been on their feet shouting at her, but Muslims? Nothing. Is it any wonder as a demographic they are deserting Labour in their droves, when representatives of the party, people who put themselves forward as arbiters of morality and equality, by their own inaction expose themselves for lacking an interest in either, merely pushing their own agenda and that certainly isn’t in the interest of Jewish people either I would suggest, since so many under Starmer have been purged, so many have been revolted, so many are campaigning and indeed standing against him in no small part because of this. Phillips was cut off from continuing her diatribe by Jake Wallis Simons, after she implied it was Muslims who are going to bring down Starmer, because there are 4 milli0on of them in the country versus 280,000 identified Jews – her figures, I haven’t checked them, because frankly it isn’t the point – it’s a dog whistle and it was a disgrace and Phillips is a disgrace every time she gets platformed largely on the BBC, despite accusations and not without merit in my opinion as a conspiracy theorist and Islamophobe, claiming in a Jewish Chronicle piece that she wrote that Islamophobia is a bogus term that provides cover for antisemites. She is so far right, she was quoted multiple times by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik in his insane manifesto.
These Labour figures chose to appear alongside her, as they do on more mainstream shows, which legitimises her and her views. I would be damned if I’d appear on a panel along with her, yet these leading right wing figures had no problem with that, nor it seems with trhe racism she just espoused as the video clip moved on to Jewish Labour Movement chair Mike Katz next to respond and although he claims to have multiple things he would have liked to have said to her, he chose one and that was not to defend Muslim members, to assure them that Islamophobia is real and the Labour Party does take it seriously, he instead opted to jump in and defend Keir Starmer, saying it was for the birds that he was somehow going to be deposed by some kind of left cabal. She didn’t actually bring up left versus right, she brought up British Jewry versus British Muslims. He didn’t even acknowledge the Islamophobia there in what she said.
Phillips in another part of the video decided to also go through a number of Labour figures who had criticised Israel for what they are doing in Gaza and have been over the last seven months, attacking Kate Osamor, Richard Burgon, John McDonnell – a theme of attacking SCG left wing Labour MPs there funnily enough, but also Sadiq Khan, Richard Parker the new West Midlands Mayor all for the crime of criticising Israel, but then she apparently lives there these days, despite being London born, but then she also claimed to be one of those Jews too afraid to walk on the streets of London now when she sees Palestinian flags, as she claims it wants her gone. She got a round of applause for that.
Where that clip I showed ended, where Jake Wallis Simons jumped in and brought up quite a lot of political leaders being deposed, Katz took that as an opportunity then, to attack Jeremy Corbyn, calling him wholly inadequate. You know what Mikey, do you know what I find wholly inadequate? Your response to Melanie Phillips being Islamophobic. More interested in attacking the Labour leader of four years ago now is just pathetic, and this is the guy Starmer put in charge of dealing with antisemitism. Its no wonder the Forde Report deemed his organisation’s ability to do so inadequate.
All I can gather from this is that Labour to this day, those in charge are more interested in remaining in charge than anything else, including dealing with societal issues like racism in an even handed manner, when they obsess over just one kind of it, prioritise it, have been criticised relentlessly to change their ways, to dismiss other forms of racism by putting antisemitism first, when it only became such a massive issue for Labour when right wingers chose to use it as a blunt instrument to clobber a left wing leader the establishment didn’t want and rubber stamp the, I would hope becoming more obvious fact, that Labour is an obstacle to change, not a representation of it.
This panel utterly disgraced themselves not just by sitting with Melanie Phillips, but by failing to hold her horrendous views to account. THAT is how Keir Starmer and his Labour Party purport to have eradicated antisemitism, but at what cost with regards to other forms of racism? THAT it seems is what we can expect from a future Labour government.
If Jeremy Corbyn is still living in the heads of some in Labour though, I’m sure the fact he’s standing as an independent now is driving them mad! However given their candidate for Corbyn’s seat is a millionaire private health CEO, the sheer level of how out of touch Starmer’s Labour is, is practically screaming in our faces! Find out all about Corbyn’s pitch and his wealthy rival in this video recommendation here and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.