{"id":358702,"date":"2018-04-27T23:13:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T22:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-anti-semitism-row-mps-turned-lynch-mob\/"},"modified":"2018-04-27T23:13:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T22:13:14","slug":"how-anti-semitism-row-mps-turned-lynch-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-anti-semitism-row-mps-turned-lynch-mob\/","title":{"rendered":"How Anti-semitism Row MPs turned Lynch Mob"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>If you force me to choose \u2013 and tragically, the mischievious confection of an \u201canti-semitism crisis\u201d in the Labour party does require me to choose, because it turns racism into a competition between worthier \u201cvictims\u201d \u2013 Marc Wadsworth, a black activist and the founder of the Anti-Racist Alliance, is a much bigger victim of racism than Jewish Labour MP Ruth Smeeth.<\/p>\n<p>The proof is in the 50 Labour MPs who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/labour-mps-rally-around-colleague-ruth-smeeth-ahead-of-marc-wadsworth-anti-semitism-hearing_uk_5ae04e05e4b07be4d4c66268\">marched<\/a> with her to an internal party hearing that they expect will expel Wadsworth. The MPs wanted to give the impression of serving as a bodyguard; in fact, they looked more like a lynch mob.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/04\/how-anti-semitism-row-mps-turned-lynch-mob\/ruthsmeeth_zpa1yh-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79339\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ruthsmeeth_zpa1yh-copy-e1524799024316.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a>Wadsworth\u2019s \u201ccrime\u201d is his accusation at a meeting to unveil the Chakrabarti report nearly two years ago that Smeeth had been leaking stories to the right wing press to harm Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.<\/p>\n<p>We can argue the facts about whether Wadsworth\u2019s claim is true: whether Smeeth did indeed connive with the anti-Corbyn press. But even if he is wrong, that would not make his allegations anti-semitic.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the accusation itself is hardly far-fetched. The Blairite wing of the parliamentary party, of which Smeeth is very much a part, barely bothers any more to conceal its desire to oust Corbyn from the leadership.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the Blairites now seem determined to terminally wound not just Corbyn but their own party, as they did at the instigation of the Conservative government last week in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/apr\/17\/jeremy-corbyn-accused-of-lacking-moral-clarity-on-antisemitism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debate on anti-semitism<\/a>. The opportunistic pummelling of Corbyn,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/04\/how-anti-semitism-row-mps-turned-lynch-mob\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you force me to choose \u2013 and tragically, the mischievious confection of an \u201canti-semitism crisis\u201d in the Labour party does require me to choose, because it turns racism into a competition between worthier \u201cvictims\u201d \u2013 Marc Wadsworth, a black activist and the founder of the Anti-Racist Alliance, is a much bigger victim of racism [&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-358702","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\/358702","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=358702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}