by
Jonathan Cook
Part
9 - Institutional racism on Palestinians
Further,
if a proportion of Jewish Labour party members have such a heavy
personal investment in Israel that they refuse to countenance any
meaningful curbs on Israel’s abuses of Palestinians – and that
has been underscored repeatedly by public comments from the JLM and
Labour Friends of Israel – then keeping them inside the party will
require cracking down on all but the flimsiest criticism of Israel.
It will tie the party’s hands on supporting Palestinian rights.
In the
name of protecting the “Israel right or wrong” crowd from what
they consider to be anti-semitic abuse, Labour will have to provide
institutional support for Israel’s racism towards Palestinians.
In doing
so, it will in fact simply be returning to the status quo in the
party before Corbyn, when Labour turned a blind eye over many decades
to the Palestinians’ dispossession by European Zionists who created
an ugly anachronistic state where rights accrue based on one’s
ethnicity and religion rather than citizenship.
Those in
Labour who reject Britain’s continuing complicity in such crimes –
ones the UK set in motion with the Balfour Declaration – will find,
as a result, that it is they who have no home in Labour. That
includes significant numbers of anti-Zionist Jews, Palestinians,
Muslims and Palestinian solidarity activists.
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