The ongoing Ken Livingstone (“Get Corbyn!”) saga grows yet more preposterous. After outrage that the former London mayor had said Hitler was a Zionist (when he clearly hadn’t, as I pointed out at the time here and here), Labour suspended Livingstone amid accusations that he had made anti-semitic, offensive and false historical claims.
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2017-03-31/labours-witch-hunt-against-ken-livingstone/
Guardian’s Peter Beaumont “Piles on” Ken Livingstone, Mangles Nazi-Era and Zionist History
It’s important to understand what my two posts about the current bout of UK mass-hysteria are and aren’t. They are about correcting the historical record. They are about understanding the important distinctions between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. They are about preventing the Israel Lobby from setting the political agenda concerning debate around Israel.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/05/01/guardians-peter-beaumont-piles-on-ken-livingstone-mangles-nazi-era-and-zionist-history/
UK Labor Party Witch Hunt: “Are You Now or Have You Ever Been Anti-Zionist?”
The UK Tory press and the Israel Lobby have lit a match under the Labor Party, which is led by its left-wing leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Rump forces within the Party who oppose his left-wing agenda have poured gasoline on the flames. They’ve collaborated in an effort to sabotage his leadership, commencing a witch-hunt that identifies progressive Labor Party activists, and even elected officials, as anti-Semites. In order to “get there,” they must transform comments that are anti-Zionist into outright anti-Semitism. Labor’s Torquemada’s have been eager to make that fatal leap into the ideological abyss. More on this later in this post.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/04/30/uk-labor-party-witch-hunt-are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-anti-zionist/