{"id":301647,"date":"2017-04-01T05:52:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T04:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/labours-witch-hunt-against-ken-livingstone\/"},"modified":"2017-04-01T05:52:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T04:52:05","slug":"labours-witch-hunt-against-ken-livingstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/labours-witch-hunt-against-ken-livingstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour\u2019s Witch-hunt Against Ken Livingstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The ongoing Ken Livingstone (\u201cGet Corbyn!\u201d) saga grows yet\u00a0more preposterous. After outrage that the former London mayor had said Hitler was a Zionist (when he clearly hadn\u2019t, as I pointed out at the time\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2016-05-07\/what-ken-livingstone-didnt-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2016-05-03\/the-true-anti-semites-past-and-present\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), Labour suspended Livingstone amid accusations\u00a0that he had made\u00a0anti-semitic, offensive and false historical claims.<\/p>\n<p>Now as Livingstone fights to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/mar\/30\/ken-livingstone-labour-party-disrepute-hitler-zionism-former-london-mayor\" target=\"_blank\">avoid expulsion<\/a> before a closed hearing of the party\u2019s national constitutional committee, it emerges that Labour\u2019s general secretary, Iain McNicol, has written to Livingstone saying that the hearing is not interested in the historical accuracy of his statements or whether what he said was anti-semitic. Rather, it is about whether his conduct has been \u201cgrossly detrimental\u201d to the party.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, this is a kangaroo court. Because, of course, Livingstone\u2019s comments have been detrimental to the party. Not least, they have angered the UK\u2019s powerful Israel lobby. That is the same lobby \u2013 directed by the Israeli embassy and working through groups like the Jewish Labour Movement \u2013 that was\u00a0recently exposed by an undercover Al Jazeera investigation as plotting to bring down a British government minister. Crossing people like that is undoubtedly detrimental to the party, because they are prepared to destroy Labour before they allow it, or its leader, to campaign on behalf of Palestinian rights.<\/p>\n<p>That is why, as long as Livingstone or Corbyn are around, the JLM and its allies in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/03\/labours-witch-hunt-against-ken-livingstone\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing Ken Livingstone (\u201cGet Corbyn!\u201d) saga grows yet\u00a0more preposterous. After outrage that the former London mayor had said Hitler was a Zionist (when he clearly hadn\u2019t, as I pointed out at the time\u00a0here and here), Labour suspended Livingstone amid accusations\u00a0that he had made\u00a0anti-semitic, offensive and false historical claims. Now as Livingstone fights to avoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-301647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}