This is a policy motion for organisations to define their stance and mandate their delegates; local branches of organisations might forward this resolution to their regional and national bodies. Another issue that organisations can cite as “not antisemitic” is the critique of Zionist ideology.
This (organisation) deplores antisemitism. But we believe the press outcry on alleged antisemitism in the Labour Party was designed, in league with Israel’s apologists and censors, to damage the party and its leadership. This does no service to a genuine fight against this hate crime.
We deplore the proposal to task Jewish Labour Movement with training Labour Party branches and organisations in recognising and defining antisemitism. JLM is an affiliate both of the Israel Labour Party which in office has promoted the building of settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories and the World Zionist Organization, which has channelled funds to the illegal settlements.
We oppose censorship of legitimate and valid political action such as Palestine solidarity. We assert our right to speak and organise against the State of Israel’s systemic, historic and ongoing ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and violations of human rights and international law, and to support Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions against those complicit in these injustices.
This (organisation) therefore, urges the Labour Party to:
* Listen to the many Jews who are outraged by the lie that Jews are not safe in the Labour Party; establish an ongoing role in the Party for alternative Jewish Labour voices;
* Adhere to fair practice and transparency when investigating charges against members;
* Call to order Labour Party members who bring the Party into disrepute by spreading false allegations about widespread antisemitism in the Party;
* Urgently lift all suspensions that were based on flimsy or unfounded claims of antisemitism.
* Strongly oppose the press incitement against Muslims, refugees and immigrant workers.
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So is Livingstone’s “Hitler supported Zionism” comment acceptable then?
Completely acceptable. The Haavara agreement between the Zionists and Nazis did actually exist, and in the context of the 70 year long Zionist pogrom against Arabs their ideological affinity with Nazism is a perfectly legitimate point to make.
Nonsense. Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf (1925) of Zionism
“A part of his race event admits quite openly that it is foreign people, however not without lying in this respect. For while Zionism tries to make the other part of the world believe that the national self-consciousness of the Jew find satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jew again most slyly dupes the stupid goiim [gentile]. They have no though of building of a Jewish state in Palestine, so that they might perhaps inhabit it, but they only want a central organisation of their international world cheating, endowed with prerogatives, withdrawn from the seizure of others – a refuge for convicted rascals and a high school for future rogues.”
While some German anti-Semites in the late nineteenth century saw the removal of Jew from Germany as their main goal, and looked to Zionism to do this (Duhring, Fichte) this was not Hitler’s view. The Haavara Agreement was thus not an expression of Hitler’s attitude to Zionism, but a temporary expedient. Hitler was did “support Zionism” before he “went mad” and turned genocidal. He was a consistent anti-Semite who believed that Zionism was at the centre of a world Jewish conspiracy from c.1920.