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The SUNDAY TIMES “Mainland” Edition (April 7) leads with the Banner Headlines – “Labour’s hate files expose Corbyn’s anti-Semite army.”
That paper once “exposed” a former Labour Leader, Michael Foot, as a Soviet agent, and was quite rightly penalised by a British Court for its lying libel. Now that Foot is around no more, the paper’s stablemate, THE TIMES, and its (possibly unstable) columnist, Ben Macintyre, has the brass nerve to regurgitate the same poisonous garbage. THE TIMES also peddles the fiction that Frank Foley of MI6, a valued collaborator with the Nazis in Berlin in early 1933, put his life at risk when he had the safest billet in that city up to September 1939 (the British Embassy) to rescue Jews from his friends’ clutches.
Love ’em or hate ’em, whoever becomes leader of the Labour Party is considered fair game for the peddlers of hate in Britain’s right-wing press.
The last leader of the Party was accused of being anti-British, because HIS father, Ralph Milliband, was a Marxist. A Marxist who had served Britain faithfully in her Navy, during the Second World War. Both Ralph’s sons became Ministers in a Labour Government, and like their parents, made no secret of the fact that they were, and continue to be, Jewish.
Margaret Hodge MP, is reported today to have said that Jeremy Corbyn has not had a new idea in the thirty-five years she has known him. As she appears to be one of those leading the charge of anti-Semitism against their common party it seems odd that she has taken so long for her to detect anti-Semitism in him.
I’ve met Corbyn a couple of times, once at the funeral of the former leader of Haringey Council, George Meehan from Donegal. a long-serving, diligent and conscientious and non-grandstanding public representative, and once in an Irish pub. Corbyn championed the righting of wrongs done to, for instance, the Birmingham Six, and the ending of the causes of wars in Ireland and other victims of Imperial policies.
In 2016 I attended the 80th Anniversary of “The Battle of Cable Street” where residents, Irish and Jewish and others,, stopped Mosley’s Blackshirts (favourites of THE DAILY MAIL) from rampaging through the area. Jeremy Corbyn was there. Hardly evidence of anti-Semitism. Incidentally, we had near neighbours and friends, an old Jewish couple, then in the Labour Party, who always celebrated St Patrick’s Day, having met at a dance organised on that festival by the Communist Party in the East End in the 1930s.
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