{"id":378518,"date":"2018-09-25T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fact-finding-labours-anti-semitism-crisis\/"},"modified":"2018-09-25T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T09:27:07","slug":"fact-finding-labours-anti-semitism-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fact-finding-labours-anti-semitism-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-Finding Labour\u2019s \u201cAnti-Semitism\u201d Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_105402\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105402\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/21468015285_ad5df1ed2b_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/21468015285_ad5df1ed2b_k.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/21468015285_ad5df1ed2b_k-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/21468015285_ad5df1ed2b_k-768x596.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source DAVID HOLT | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Several CounterPunchers, I included, have posted on the \u201cantisemitism\u201d campaign directed at the Labour party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn\u2019s most virulent accusers have been from his own party, abetted by the tabloid media, and the supposedly liberal <em>Guardian <\/em>(though it has long been a Blairite holdout, and its chief op-ed writer on Israel is the ardent Zionist Jonathan Freedland).<\/p>\n<p>This anti-Corbyn faction in the Labour party is made up of two overlapping groups: increasingly marginalized supporters of the former leader Tony Blair whose neoliberal \u201cThatcher lite\u201d agenda has been superseded by Corbyn\u2019s push to reclaim and revitalize Labour\u2019s socialist origins; and a Zionist element, which turns out to be extremely well-funded, having well-documented strong links with pro-Zionist advocacy groups.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, I\u2019ve been researching organizational links and funding sources from key donors, along with associated parliamentary patterns on two significant issues\u2013\u00a0 the illegal invasion of Iraq and Saudi adventurism in the Middle East\u2013\u00a0 congruent with Israel\u2019s declared interests.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Corbyn, by contrast, has been an unyielding supporter of the rights of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p>The results, presented below, have (to say the least) been more than a mild surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Corrections, and updates, from readers will be most welcome, as I intend to keep this list up-to-date and free from error.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LABOUR POLITICIANS WHO&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/09\/25\/fact-finding-labours-anti-semitism-crisis\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source DAVID HOLT | CC BY 2.0 Several CounterPunchers, I included, have posted on the \u201cantisemitism\u201d campaign directed at the Labour party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn\u2019s most virulent accusers have been from his own party, abetted by the tabloid media, and the supposedly liberal Guardian (though it has long been a Blairite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378518","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\/378518","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}