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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nIf insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results, then the British Labour Party is institutionally insane and beyond recovery.<\/h5>\n
Labour\u2019s\u00a0 leadership candidates didn\u2019t learn a thing from their Party\u2019s humiliating electoral defeat last month. Instead of returning to universal anti racist politics consistent with so-called \u2018Labour values,\u2019 the compromised contenders for party leadership bow to the demands made by the Board of Deputies of British Jews<\/span><\/a>, a self-elected pressure group that claims to represent 0.5% of the British public.\u00a0 Our Labour leadership candidates have attended to whims uttered by a tiny privileged voice while ignoring at least 99.5% of the British public. \u2018For the very few and no one else,\u2019 falls short of describing this political suicide.<\/h5>\n
This weekend, Labour’s first leadership hustings in Liverpool provided another spectacular display of the candidates\u2019\u00a0spineless and unprincipled behaviour. Each waited his or her turn to utter embarrassing statements that they hoped would appease their party\u2019s bitterest enemy.<\/h5>\n
During the event, leadership candidate Jess Phillips took a furious swipe at her rivals’ \u2018alleged silence over anti-Semitism.\u2019 She claimed that Labour\u2018s failure on antisemitism had lost the party its \u201cmoral high ground\u201d in the battle against racism. She referred in her comments to Rebecca Long-Bailey, Emily Thornberry and Sir Keir Starmer, who had all been part of Corbyn\u2019s team.<\/h5>\n
Emily Thornberry, who just a week ago was on \u201cher hands and knees<\/a><\/span>\u201d asking for Jewish \u201cforgiveness,\u201d\u00a0 hit back at the accusations, saying she has always been clear that antisemitism \u201cundermines us as a party.\u201d Vowing to kick out so-called \u2018antisemites,\u2019 she said: \u201cWhat the Israeli government is doing at the moment is completely unacceptable. But that is not the fault of the Jews.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Someone should remind the \u2018kneeling enthusiast\u2019 that in his entire career, Corbyn never\u00a0 criticised Jews, Judaism or Jewishness.\u00a0 He did criticise Israel and Zionism, while making a clear distinction between Jews and Zionism. It is this\u00a0critique of Israel and its politics that made Corbyn and the party \u2018antisemitic\u2019 in the eyes of the Zionist pressure groups. If Thornberry insists on getting on her hands and knees to ask for pardon, she ought to understand the \u2018fault\u2019 that has been attached to her party, otherwise, her conduct fits too well\u00a0with the definition of insanity.<\/h5>\n
Frontrunner Sir Keir Starmer, candidate\u00a0 Rebecca Long-Bailey and candidate Lisa Nandy all repeated the same line. Each vowed to repair Labour\u2019s relationships with British Jews. There is nothing inherently wrong with altering the Party\u2019s appeal to Jews but the leadership candidates must have failed to notice that Corbyn wasted his political energy as a Party leader trying to do just that.<\/h5>\n
In the early stages of his leadership, Corbyn\u2019s\u00a0 popularity was the result of the false perception that he was an ideologically principled leader. It was Corbyn\u2019s anti war stand, opposition to Anglo-American imperialism and Zionism that so many liked. As time passed, it became clear that Corbyn, the person, had little or nothing in common with his revolutionary image. The man zigzagged around every possible topic including antisemitism and Zionism, let alone Brexit. The man who at one stage was perceived as a \u2018Left Icon\u2019 publicly transformed into a caricature of a political \u2018left over.\u2019 Corbyn lost the election because he was unfit to dwell in Number 10. The Brits realised that if Corbyn couldn\u2019t handle a tiny foreign lobby, he would struggle to deal with Putin.<\/h5>\n
But there was a lesson entangled in Corbyn\u2019s political demise.\u00a0 When Corbyn showed a bit of\u00a0 willingness to resist the Lobby\u2019s pressure, his public support grew dramatically.\u00a0 Two weeks before the election, while being interviewed by BBC\u2019s Andrew Neil, Corbyn refused to apologise to the Jewish community<\/span><\/a>. He took a firm stand and upheld a universal anti racist approach to discrimination.\u00a0 The spike in the polls was immediate<\/span>. <\/a>\u00a0In some of the polls Labour halved the gap<\/span><\/a> with the Tories. At the time, I was skeptical about Corbyn\u2019s bravery.\u00a0 I thought his reaction was likely accidental. Perhaps he wasn\u2019t prepared for the question and forgot to crawl on demand. It only took a few days before Corbyn and his shadow chancellor<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 reverted to their usual apologetic take on the matter: the rest is history. Corbyn\u2019s Labour suffered its worst electoral defeat in 84 years.<\/h5>\n
Jeremy Corbyn interviewed by BBC\u2019s Andrew Neil https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tecUadXe82k<\/a><\/h5>\n