Unquestioning Zionism has for decades been the entry ticket to the British political and media Establishment. Anybody who was not a fully certified and compliant zionist would find their career limited – as Jeremy Corbyn, Alan Duncan, Robin Cook and David Mellor all found. Most others, of course, were never allowed to progress that far.
In the media there are any number of examples – Antoinette Lattouf, Emily Wilder, Katie Halper, Gabriele Nunziante and Sangita Myska just from the top of my head. Lack of enthusiasm for Israel is career-destroying.
One consequence is that now, as the UK political system retches to try and vomit up a new Prime Minister, every single one of the contenders – Andy Burnham, Angela Rayner, Ed Miliband and Wes Streeting – has a long history of nailed-on, certified zionism and relationship with both Israel and Labour Friends of Israel, and is a long-term recipient of zionist lobby cash.
The media have spent the last several days since the local elections studiously ignoring the fact that support for Genocide is a key factor in alienating the Labour Party’s traditional voting base – or when they do mention it, relating it only to Muslim voters. One thing we know for certain is that any probable new Prime Minister is not going to change Britain’s support for the genocidal zionist entity.
Zionism has long poisoned the central nervous system of the UK body politic. For many years, due to their media control, this system worked seamlessly. The media portrayed a benign image of Israel as a bastion of liberal democratic values under siege from corrupt and barbaric Arab peoples. The Genocide of Palestinians, which has been in progress almost 80 years, proceeded at a pace and by methods which rigorous media control made it possible to convince Western audiences was not really happening at all.
When a kickback against Genocide came on October 7th 2023, media gatekeeping made the declaration of condemnation of Hamas a ritual which had to be observed to ensure purity before you were permitted to express anything else at all. The media united around false atrocity stories of the events of October 7th. Then they united around false Israeli narratives in which every Gazan hospital, clinic, school, public utility and eventually home was a secret Hamas missile base.
At this point, something broke. There was a spectacular burst in public opinion. From being a lulling, soothing narrative of European civilisational superiority, the zionist propaganda was revealed as obvious lies in the service of the very worst atrocities man could do to man (and child).
The media covered up the horrors and the Israeli government raced to stem the flow of images out of Gaza by murdering every journalist there, but public belief in the zionist narrative was fatally damaged.
The result of that was western zionist governments became scared of their own populations. In virtually every western state, extreme authoritarian measures were adopted to limit free speech and punish pro-Palestinian protest. This was followed by attempts to reinforce the exclusion from public life of non-zionists by a new wave of accusations of anti-semitism, reinforced by waves of false flag or agent provocateur organised “anti-semitic incidents”.
Incidentally the Hasbara invented “Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya” so-called terrorist group – actually an Israeli-operated Telegram account – was first “revealed” to the Western public by Joe Truzman of Israeli Washington front organisation the Foundation for Defending Democracy (FDD). Nick Stewart of FDD has subsequently been added to the Witkoff-Kushner negotiating team with Iran and flew to Islamabad with them.
The Iranians have entirely sensibly refused to engage with this group as simply representing Israel.
That is where we are now, with extraordinary developments like the effort to jail and debar Rajiv Menon KC for contempt of court for what I had called the greatest legal speech I ever read, and the charging of thousands of peaceful citizens under terrorism laws for supporting Palestine Action.
Those are but horrible symptoms of a wider malaise – and the fundamental shift is that the majority of the population, and above all of younger people, now realise that they are governed by a political and media class which acts in service of a zionist project which is truly evil.
The billionaire class was already allied with the far right. As the appalling fall in living standards of ordinary people since the 2008 banking crisis has been caused by the massive and artificially wrought concentration of wealth which followed, the efforts to divert attention from the hoarders of wealth instead to scapegoat immigrants have entailed massive financial and corporate media backing for racist politicians.
This now synchs neatly with their need for support for zionism. Zionism has found support through an easy alliance with the rampant Islamophobia that underpins much of the anti-migrant sentiment in the UK and rest of the Western world.
Israel’s core support now does not feel the need to hide the fact that Israel was always a deeply racist project. Israel’s core supporters now glory in racist Genocide, as the Tommy Robinson march this weekend will demonstrate and as the Israeli flags at Reform rallies show.
Israel flags at a Reform party leader’s speech is literally all you need to see.
Anyone telling you Refrom will save Britain is a fraud. pic.twitter.com/31PfCl91B9
— Adam (@adamemedia1) May 11, 2026
On last week’s election coverage on all UK TV channels, every single time a Green representative came on they were immediately pushed to criticise Zack Polanski’s comments on the Golders Green incident – where a certified lunatic stabbed two Jewish men after stabbing a Muslim man. I was sad – and somewhat shocked – to hear every single Green party representative head immediately for the Jeremy Corbyn tactic of abject apology and condemnation of “anti-semitism”.
Only Jenny Jones then pushed back against the conflation of criticism of Israel with anti-semitism.
The exclusion of non-zionists is still in force within the political and media class. It will remain in force until we change the political and media class.
Personally, the disconnect between the revulsion of the large majority of people of the western world at the Genocide in Gaza, and the people’s complete lack of political power to stop their uniparty political leaderships from supporting Genocide, has fundamentally changed my view of politics. I now fully accept that the change the western world needs is revolutionary, not incremental.
The problem is those of the exploited classes who have reached breaking point, have so far been easily diverted down the track of racism and away from their true enemies. I fear that is a tactic not likely to fail soon.
We continue to fight with what weapons we have to hand. On 27 May at the Court of Session in Edinburgh we will continue our legal battle against the proscription of Palestine Action.
The 27 May hearing will be on our motion to suspend the proscription in Scotland pending the Scottish judicial review. Decent, caring people are still being dragged through the Scottish courts on potentially life-changing terrorism charges merely for expressing their support for Palestine Action’s attempts to stop Genocide. Many have been dragged to court again and again as their cases are continually put off, while the legal establishment havers over the proscription.
The Crown Office refuses to drop prosecutions and Police Scotland refuses to say it will not arrest people. Nobody has any certainty as to whether the law is being enforced or not. Arrests and prosecutions appear entirely at executive whim – the very definition of arbitrary government. We seek to end this uncertainty.
The UK government is bringing a counter motion to sist (suspend) the judicial review pending the conclusion of the English proceedings – a straight Unionist argument that these things should be decided in London for the whole of the UK.
I do hope you will come to the court in Edinburgh on 27 May, both to witness the proceedings and to demonstrate outside and show that public revulsion at Genocide is not going away, and is only increased by Israel’s illegal attacks on Iran and Lebanon.
I am afraid these proceedings are horribly expensive to keep the legal battle going. Again please contribute if you can but do not contribute if it causes you difficulty. If you know people who are able to afford to help and likely to be sympathetic, please do contact them and ask their assistance. We are trying to keep a lot of very good people out of prison.
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Zionism is akin to Nazism.
Many politicians are bought and paid for by the Zionists, those that couldn’t be bought were blackmailed, in ways such as the Epstein Files, do what we want or your video with child X will be released etc, this has shut up many European politicians and businessmen and they they turn a blind eye to the Zionist war crimes and genocide, whilst imposing strict laws on criticism on Zionist activities in Gaza – and push the relentless anti-Semitic trope just about everywhere – and for everything they don’t like.
As for the Scottish COPFS – both them and the Scottish colonial police force, known as Police Scotland are deeply corrupt.
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Genius! I love you, Craig Murray!
Not just Zionism – Brexit too. How many of the leading Labour contenders are openly pro-EU membership? In a country where nearly half voted to Remain a decade ago that is an extraordinary democratic deficit – and surely can’t be a coincidence. And look at the reverence the media give to Farage compared with Starmer. British politicians get nowhere unless they support Israel and Brexit, and both are backed by the United States.
Hang on. What was the result of the Brexit referendum, remind me?
I see the exact opposite. Most of the establishment-programmed automata we misleadingly refer to as ‘journalists’ and ‘politicians’ are working to reverse Brexit and jump back on the corrupt neoliberal EU gravy train.
Conflating zionism with brexit ! Nice try, it’s amazing how low some will stoop.
Tom74 did not conflate Zionism with Brexit. Not in the usual meaning of “conflate”. He mentioned that some people support both Israel and Brexit.
I strongly support Brexit, because I want Britain to remain independent – or as nearly so as possible. And I strongly oppose Israel, because I dislike racism and genocide.
For Starmerites, rejecting a democratic vote is a much lesser crime than participating in genocide (which should not even be considered a crime).
Zionism is just another form of hatred for anything that isn’t it’s self… whatever it claims. Government and it’s master’s have alway’s despised us, we are no stranger’s to this hatred but have learned to protect ourselves, there is nothing new here.
Well Said Craig.. It’s just Sickening what the UK – and the Whole of Europe has been Complacent in… Bit late for the Change of Hearts by some..But better late than Never ..I think.
Some of the Videos make me feel I’ll to my heart –
The little girl (12 or so ) carrying a large container for water – Droned to Pieces.
The Nun pushed over Slamming her head face down
A woman fleeing, holding an Infans hand..Shot in the head..the infand seen running away…And it Goes on –
The father Executed in front of Daughter by Drone..then then the Dron goes after the Young Girl..Executes her.. And all the Settler Cretins..Sneering Terrorizing Palestinains.. I would wipe the Evil smile off their face TRY IT Cnt.
And the way Europe and US Treats Francesca…But well done Spain for awarding her . Or is it.
The Order of Civil Merit _ I have Ordered her New book – ‘ When the World Sleeps ‘ Which became a best seller within Days of release…
Ive been reading a Book called ‘ How to Sell a Genocide
The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza, By Adam H. Johnson… Medialens Recomended It.
Anyway..Take easy Craig
How can i forward the above article to others?
Pending an official reply, this link should do it:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/05/zionism-has-poisoned-the-uks-central-nervous-system
Just copy and paste into your email.
Thanks Tom.
A comment from “Dorothy” on the Ha’aretz article “What Netanyahu – and 60 Minutes – Left Out of His Interview” caught my eye:
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It’s interesting (but worrying) that here in the Israeli media you are free to criticise the actions of your Government as freely as you do. In the UK, we are almost always hobbled (and sometimes arrested under Terrorism laws) for saying that Israel is a rogue state. The cry of “antisemitism” is levelled so often at anyone who dares to say that the IDF’s uncontrolled violence against Palestinians and now the Lebanese is unacceptable that it has become meaningless. Or, in some cases, mocked. This more than ANYTHING is incredibly dangerous for all Jewish people across the globe. Once people start to ignore accusations of antisemitism Jewish lives are at risk.
The sickening violence of Netanyahu and his stable of ultra-looney puppet masters has done more to increase worldwide antisemitism than practically anything else I’ve ever seen. In the UK, however, the Board of Deputies remains mostly silent.
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So more freedom of speech in Israel than the UK!
“So more freedom of speech in Israel than the UK!”
Yes, actually Haaretz is a pretty decent newspaper in many ways, it publishes more criticism of Netanyahu’s regime than any mainstream UK news outlet.
I may be wrong, but IIRC it was Haaretz journalists who first exploded Netanyahu’s lies about “80 beheaded babies” and other propaganda that most of the British and US media just reprinted without any suggestion that it might possibly be a load of made-up rubbish.
Never forget that there are Jews who stand with us in our horror at the appalling atrocities committed by the IDF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOaxAckFCuQ
It was 40 beheaded babies and mass rape.
Made up 40 or 80 is still mde up.
perhaps they counted the beheaded babies as two separate individuals and got from 40 to 80
Regards Jeremy Corbyn apologising for antisemitism, I thoroughly researched the matter several years ago and found only four instances of him doing so. Over a period of 4.25 years when he was leader. The first occasion was when he apologised for not looking properly at a picture of the mural back in 2012. Anyway, save me researching it again, this is what the Search Assist found/said:
March 2018 (The Mural Row): After defending an antisemitic mural in 2012, Corbyn apologised for the “pain and hurt” caused by “pockets of antisemitism” in the party.
August 2018 (2010 Holocaust Event): Following reports that he hosted an event in 2010 where a Holocaust survivor compared Israel to Nazism, he apologised for appearing on platforms with people whose views he “completely rejects”.
August 2018 (Video Message): He released a video stating he was “sincerely sorry” for the hurt caused to Jewish people and admitted the party had been “too slow” to process disciplinary cases.
December 2019 (TV Interview): After famously refusing to apologise four times during an interview with BBC’s Andrew Neil, he later told ITV’s This Morning that he was “very sorry for everything that has happened”.
Yes, you could argue that, for example, he shouldn’t have apologised regards the 2010 Holocaust Event, but my point is that he only apologised four times. I then asked the Search Assist how many times he refused to apologise, and this was the response:
The Andrew Neil Interview (November 2019): In one of the most famous moments of the 2019 election campaign, Andrew Neil asked Corbyn four times if he would apologise to the British Jewish community. Instead of a direct apology, Corbyn responded by stating he was determined to make society “safe for people of all faiths” and that racism was a “total poison”.
Response to Chief Rabbi’s Criticism (November 2019): Following an article by Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, who called Corbyn “unfit for high office,” Corbyn was pressured to apologise but initially resisted, stating the Rabbi was “not right” in his criticisms.
Post-Neil Interview Pressure: In the days immediately following the BBC interview, Corbyn continued to express “regret” but stopped short of a personal apology during subsequent campaign events, despite calls from his own frontbenchers to do so.
And it finishes by saying the following:
It is important to note that Corbyn did issue several apologies at other times, including a broad apology on ITV’s This Morning just a week after the Andrew Neil interview, where he stated, “Obviously I am very sorry for everything that has happened”. Critics, however, often argued these apologies were either too slow or only came under extreme political pressure.
Needless to say, he got lots of flack for NOT apologising. I also came across this JVL piece from March 2023:
“Corbyn never apologised” – an unkillable myth pedalled in mainstream media
by Richard Kuper
In his introduction to a discussion of the NEC decision to ban Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a Labour candidate in the next election Mark Urban referred to “his refusal to offer any kind of apology” [for the antisemitism row] and, in any election campaign “he would refuse to apologise as he has done all the way up to now” (BBC’s Newsnight, 28 March, starts 17.22)
On Politics Live on 27 March (starts 08.15 mins) Siobhan McDonagh states that “Jeremy can sort this out, he can apologise for the antisemitism, he can acknowledge that he is deliberately and belligerently belittling and demoting the amount of antisemitism that went on in the Labour Party… if Jeremy were to say look, in retrospect, things were bad, I should have done more, antisemitism is always wrong, then…”
Even more surprising is James Ball, global editor at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, who in a discussion on the topic in Feb 2022, tweeted: “Saying sorry for doing something immensely shitty shouldn’t be all that difficult, it’s just that Corbyn literally never apologised for anything.”
Earlier this year Liz Kendall MP appeared on the Peston show, alongside Jeremy Corbyn, on 11 January 2023.
“I’m afraid Jeremy only has himself to blame for the situation he’s in because of his failure to apologise for what happened in the Labour Party, when he was leader, on antisemitism,” said Kendall.
To which Robert Peston asked: “What apology – because maybe he’ll do it now – what apology would you want from Jeremy?” presenter Robert Peston asked. And Kendall replied: “A full and frank apology, which has never happened.”….
Each and everyone of them were lying through their teeth and deliberately trying to smear Jeremy further and mislead their respective audiences. Here’s a link to the JVL article (Richard Kuper is an executive committee member of JVL):
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/corbyn-never-apologised-an-unkillable-myth-pedalled-in-mainstream-media/
every one of them, that is, not everyone of them!
Anyway, the point is that the MSM has complete and total control of the narrative and, as such, Jeremy was in a no-win situation. And whenever anyone refuted the A/S allegations, they were attacked and accused of being in denial and, as such, being part of the problem. And what would his critics on the left have had him say? Would they have had him say that it’s all a smear campaign being waged by zionist groups and organisations and Jewish newspapers and Blairites and the MSM etc? Can you imagine the (faux) uproar and condemnation and outrage. I mean just look at the response when he said the A/S accusations had been exaggerated!
” And what would his critics on the left have had him say? Would they have had him say that it’s all a smear campaign being waged by zionist groups and organisations and Jewish newspapers and Blairites and the MSM etc?”
That is EXACTLY what he should have said, Allan. I’ve long found it baffling- and frustrating – how people seem so scared to TELL THE TRUTH about what is actually occurring re State/Deep State/Security Service clandestine fuckery. I’ve had conversations with people on the subject and the response has varied from ” don’t be ridiculous. of course our Gov + ” others ” would never do such things ” to – wryly, with nudge/wink resignation – ” yes, we know these things happen but that’s just how things are and there’s nothing we can do about it “. Really, NOTHING we can do about the continuous subversion of anything the ” State ” deems unacceptable, eg even a mildly left-leaning Gov as manifested by J Corbyn – or may have been manifested by JC had the Zionist serum not been injected into his G.E campaign; much of which by the treacherous swine led by Gormless and the Blairite shitebags of his own Party
I fear this – the resigned acceptance of State malfeasance – which should be causing mass outrage/protest – is a consequence of the weaponisation of the term ” Conspiracy Theory “: people have become so intimidated at the prospect of being labelled such, they either refuse to even accept the idea – even when there is abundant evidence – of, eg ” dodgy dossiers ” or they accept the idea but keep schtum about it for fear of ridicule. Result! for those with something/s to hide.
Until someone does openly, loudly state the truth, the erasure of what residual Democracy remains will continue and there will be zero chance of there ever being a Government in the U.K that hasn’t been ” vetted “; Infiltrated; subverted-in-advance by, eg Zionist ” interests “.
Look at how the latest Great White ( Green ) Hope is already on the back foot, being severely pressured to bow to Zionist demands – the fucking cheek of these bastards involving themselves in an other countries affairs, which the can only do, of course, having salted the ground over decades, getting their pawns in prime position to checkmate any move by ” non-aligned ” players. Why doesn’t he come out a tell the world what is actually happening? Maybe he’s already ” on board ” and is merely playing his role in ongoing Pax Judeaica? Whatever the case, if someone/thing doesn’t take a REAL stance against this Zionist/Israeli poison there will be nothing left worth saving
“That is EXACTLY what he should have said”
Yes, Corbyn the great appeaser, everyone’s friend.
The zionists see apologists as weak and will attack and destroy them.
Compare Corbyn with with Zarah Sultana
“The smears won’t work this time.
I say it loudly and proudly: I’m an anti-Zionist.
Print that.” https://x.com/zarahsultana/status/1957177361381896667?ref_src
Never apologise, never back down. Corbyn did, Musk, did, Polanski did. Iran shows how to deal with these rats.
If Sultana had been leader of the LP and said such a thing she would have got the full A/S treatment. And been destroyed like JC.
‘Whatever the case, if someone/thing doesn’t take a REAL stance against this Zionist/Israeli poison there will be nothing left worth saving’
I entirely agree Robert, and there is a potential solution, but Jeremy would have been totally slaughtered had he said something to that effect, and ditto now for the Green Party and Zack Polanski. As Malcolm X said…. “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
JC got PRETTY close to it though when he said:
“One antisemite is one too many, but the scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media.
“That combination hurt Jewish people and must never be repeated…..”
But by then of course the fascist scum had achieved their goal, and he was no longer leader of the LP. The only word he omits really is ‘zionist’, as in “… our zionist opponents inside and outside the party….”. But – and this is the thing – not only would he have been totally slaughtered if he HAD said such a thing when he was leader, but even in a totally improbable scenario in which he wasn’t condemned, it is absent any detail, and would most likely be forgotten by most people in a day or two or three. And that’s where ‘we’ come in!
Over 300,000 people voted for Jeremy in 2016, and I would be amazed if there weren’t tens of thousands of them chomping at the bit to get the truth of what these cnuts did out there to the millions they duped and deceived and manipulated, and expose them for subverting democracy and the traitors to humanity that they are.
‘We’ are anonymous, so they can’t attack us and smear us, and ‘we’ can put leaflets together exposing their lies and falsehoods and stick them through people’s doors!
Just yesterday I found myself thinking about the Naz Shah episode, and how Jeremy’s enemies portrayed her (nine months before she was elected an MP) as having seriously suggested that Israel should be moved to the US:
Naz Shah: timeline of events leading to MP’s suspension from Labour
Sequence of events that followed revelation of Facebook posts that sparked antisemitism row
Tuesday 26 April, 7:53am: Naz Shah’s Israel ‘transportation’ post emerges
Labour MP Naz Shah admits to the Guido Fawkes blog she wrote a Facebook post arguing for Israel’s population to be “transported” out of the Middle East to America. Shah is currently a member of the House of Commons home affairs select committee, which is conducting an inquiry into the rise of antisemitism.
The post, shared nine months before she beat George Galloway to win the seat in Bradford West, showed a picture of Israel superimposed over the United States, with the approving comment: “Problem solved and save you bank charges for the £3bn you transfer yearly.”….
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/27/naz-shah-timeline-of-events-leading-to-mps-suspension-from-labour
It wasn’t the teeniest weeniest bit antisemitic, and most people would have found it amusing, except for a few senior zionists, and I’m sure that even many Jewish people wouldn’t have been offended by it, but throw in some (faux) condemnation and outrage, and Bob’s yer uncle. But this is the thing – ie that it happened – purely coincidentally of course – about ten days before the local elections were happening and Jeremy, as such, was contesting his first elections as leader. Needless to say it was all planned well in advance for Naz Shah’s post (and several others) to come to light when they did. And my point is that if this episode (which in turn led to the Ken Livingstone episode) were related in a leaflet (along with a bunch of other stuff of course), and in the leaflet pointed out that the chances of her posts coming to light just ten days before the local elections etc are absolute zero, and that it was obviously all planned weeks and months in advance, the vast majority of people (reading it in the leaflet) would get it, and KNOW that it was undoubtedly what the psychopathic democracy subverting shitheads DID. Of course they would (although maybe not in quite those terms!)
I could spend all day suggesting material that could go in the leaflet, but I would DEFINITELY include the following from a piece posted by MediaLens in September, 2018:
Labour was defeated in the general election of May 7, 2015, causing leader Ed Miliband to resign. On June 3, the BBC reported that Corbyn had joined the contest to replace him. We monitored this period closely and it is simply unarguable that Corbyn was portrayed by journalists, and even party political foes, as a basically decent person. He was depicted as a left relic, certainly – irrelevant and ridiculous – but also as sincere and well-intentioned. There was no sense whatever in ‘mainstream’ media coverage that Corbyn was a malign individual.
In July, we conducted a ProQuest newspaper database search, which found the following hits for UK press articles mentioning:
‘Jeremy Corbyn’ and ‘antisemitism’ before May 2015 = 18 hits
‘Jeremy Corbyn’ and ‘antisemitism’ after May 2015 = 6,133 hits
None of the 18 mentions before May 2015 included any accusation that Corbyn was antisemitic. And it was not, as some people have claimed, that Corbyn, a leading anti-war MP, was unknown or unworthy of attention. ProQuest found 3,659 hits for ‘Jeremy Corbyn’ before May 2015.
https://www.medialens.org/2018/charges-without-merit-jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-norman-finkelstein-and-noam-chomsky/
And also include the bit in the interview with Alastair Campbell for GQ where John Bercow, the former speaker of the house, said that he did not believe Jeremy Corbyn was antisemitic, and that in their 22 years in Parliament together, he had “never detected so much as a whiff of antisemitism” from him, etc, which was blanked by the WHOLE of the MSM. Hmm, I wonder why.
John Bercow: ‘I do not believe Jeremy Corbyn is anti-Semitic’
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/john-bercow-interview
The JC part is towards the end of the interview under a subheading/question, and highlighted: ‘AC: One final thing. You are Jewish. What has your sense been of the Labour Party anti-Semitism debate?’
As you said Robert, if a stance against the poison isn’t taken there will be nothing worth saving. And THAT is why it’s down to ‘us’ to expose these inhuman beings for what they do and what they are. Max 3 pages/6 sides of A4 I would suggest, held together with a paperclip (for convenience, as opposed to stapled), at the end of which, in Bold, it would say PLEASE COPY AND/OR SCAN AND CIRCULATE TO RELATIVES AND FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS AND WORK COLLEAGUES ETC.
Oh, and they’ll be lots of material for such a leaflet in Jonathan Cook’s articles on the subject. And I nearly forgot… came across the following when I went on medialens a while ago, which just happened to be posted today:
‘Starmageddon’ – The Anti-Polanski Smear Campaign That Ate Itself
https://www.medialens.org/2026/starmageddon-the-anti-polanski-smear-campaign-that-ate-itself/
PS Apologies for such a gynormous long post
I take your points, Allan, but, re ” not only would he have been totally slaughtered if he HAD said such a thing when he was leader….” ; he was ” slaughtered ” anyway!: these people have no concept of ” quarter “, ie restraint/*mercy* – look what they’re prepared to do to children, never mind some – to them – pipsqueak ” lefty ” Brit Pol.
JC was simply never going to be allowed to win a G.E or form a Government; and it wasn’t just the Zionihilists determined he wouldn’t, also the altruists of Neolib/con Capitalism were against him too; lest – horrible dictu, he actually brought some of their excesses to heel and – even more horrible dictu……instigated a more equitable division of the National * Pie *. That just wasn’t on, was it?
In the end it wouldn’t have mattered what he said, how honest/accurate/critical he was about the – unelected/undemocratic/foreign – forces arrayed against him and which succeeded in torpedoing his electoral chances; so he may have been just as well stating the honest truth
“I entirely agree Robert, and there is a potential solution, but Jeremy would have been totally slaughtered had he said something to that effect, ”
Now, on the presumption that you do’t mean that literally, how would that have been worse than what actually happened?
@Allan – This is great research work, but it strengthens the conclusion that Jeremy Corbyn, bless his cotton socks, has never known how to go the whole way where condemnation of the existence of the settler colonial occupation regime in Palestine is concerned. He and many others didn’t have this problem with regard to, shall we say, the white supremacist regimes in South Africa or what is now Zimbabwe.
Some other things for the record…
He was embarrassingly mealymouthed when asked by a parliamentary committee whether he accepted the settler regime’s “right to exist”. He said “I accept that it does exist”. He should have said 1) “are you a committee of the parliament of Britain or of some other country?”, and 2) n”o I do not accept the right of what you call “Israel” to exist – it’s an ethnic supremacist entity”. He chickened out, but this is the result of his lifelong commitment to parliamentary representative legal politics.
ISTR him saying the Jewish community had been at the forefront of relief efforts for the victims of some war or disaster, I forget which one. He was saying this to a Jewish group. What he said was absolute bilge. The organised Jewish community has never been at the forefront of relief efforts for anyone other than Jews, and in any case any supposed “anti-Zionist Jewish” insistence that Jews should be “at the forefront” of anti-racism is worthy of only contempt. (Try applying it to white supremacism in the USA or South Africa and seeing whether the statement makes you feel sick or not.)
Many years ago, my and Jeremy Corbyn’s paths crossed, in Islington. It was during the miners’ strike of 1984-85, only a few months into it, when there was a real chance of actions that could have expanded it towards victory. Coalminers had travelled down from Yorkshire to the meeting. Even had we all gone outside and sat down in the street, it could have been an inspiring action, let alone all the other things that could have been decided. Do you know what Corbyn proposed as the way forward? He said we all had to build towards a Labour victory in the next election, which was then 3-4 years away because there had just been one in 1983. I can respect him as a genuine person, and he would get my vote were I on the electoral register in his constituency, but essentially all his life he has nailed himself to the mast of the “parliamentary road”. And the parliamentary road is c*ck. There are those of us who have known that all our lives, and who didn’t discover it recently. As for Jeremy Corbyn, he will never discover it.
The Miners’ Strike was dead in the water from day one, Brian, since Scargill & co were daft enough to kick it all off in March, giving the authorities plenty of time to import cheap coal from abroad in time for winter.
P.S. My local elections round-up is now up on the previous comments section, in case anyone’s interested.
@Re-lapsed – The authorities did import coal (including from Poland and from Arthur Scargill’s beloved USSR) but by March 1984 they had also built up large stocks from inside the country. Sure, in retrospect the strike should have been started earlier. But
* Conflict has two sides and you don’t always get the chance to decide on timing.
* Coal stocks are physical things capable of being sabotaged (and very flammable), and their transport too is a physical action capable of being blocked.
* There were actions a short way into the strike that had big potential, such as blocking motorways.
* Solidarity was successfully sought from other groups of workers right up until early 1985, i.e. well into the period where many strike supporters supposed (wrongly) that the miners could win by sticking it out. One example was the call on dockers to block all goods (not just coal) from being shipped to Britain. This admirable call was gaining support among dockers internationally, thanks to Spanish dockers among others. Other solidarity should have gone further. For example the print workers on national newspapers (“Fleet Street”) were donating £1 million per week…and very welcome it was too…but had they brought the bourgeois press to an indefinite standstill in addition, the rulers would have felt more pain and fear all right. It’s easy to add other things that “could have” been done, and mention things that actually were done on a small scale and “should have” gained more momentum. So there’s no way the strike was dead in the water from Day One unless you think it could only ever have been about sticking it out.
* A few months in (probably around the time of the above-mentioned Islington meeting) there was also the hope that a “second front” could be opened up in the form of inner-city riots.
* Calling for building for a Labour election victory in 1987 (to “kick the Tories out” in middle class social worker speak), as Jeremy Corbyn did, was definitely not the way forward. Even if we give him all the benefit of the doubt (which I’m not sure he deserves) and say this was someone who supported the strike and who was suggesting how it could win (in which case, let’s hear what the comrade has got to say, etc.), this was still effing clueless. Epicly so. Sorry but how many MPs sit on which side of a room with lots of seats and cameras shouldn’t be the focus.
The focus should have been forcing the rulers to concede by any means necessary. If the rulers want to call a general election so as to try to keep some legitimacy as they make the concession, that’s really up to them. That is in fact exactly what they did in 1974.
Thanks for your reply Brian. To address your points.
– The NUM leadership could have elected to launch the strike at any point in time (they didn’t hold a members’ ballot). They should have started November 83 at the latest.
– Industrial sabotage could have largely been averted by deploying the police (or even the army) to guard ports, coal depots etc.
– Blocking motorways would hardly have won over most of the general public. Any roadblocks could fairly easily be removed by the police/army.
– Printers etc going on strike would have just resulted in far more people getting their news from the TV & radio, which could have been instructed to present the government’s case over that of the miners – and probably more effectively than the right-wing press, since far more people believed in the neutrality of the Beeb etc in those days.
– Inner-city riots could have been quelled by the army, and links ‘found’ to the striking miners.
– No need to bother what Corbyn thought as Labour were unlikely to win the election – and even if they had, Kinnock wouldn’t have let him anywhere near the reins of power.
One last point: Winning the Miners’ Strike represented a net economic loss for the authorities, because it cost them far more in decades of dole & housing benefit for unemployed miners than it would have done to run the remaining pits at a loss and gradually run them down by letting people retire and not taking on new school-leavers. But, on both sides, it was about ideology not economics.
Fair enough Brian, but surely you’re not saying that ‘we’ shouldn’t bother getting leaflets together and expose the lying fear-mongering hate-monger bastards for what they do and what they are, are you?
I’ve put more than a few leaflets together over the years, and especially since I got my first computer (and printer), and run off a thousand or two copies and stuck them through people’s doors. And I have no idea of course how many people/households they eventually reached. The last one I did (a few years ago) was about GM crops and GM foods, and the first thing I put in the leaflet (which I believe is still the case), is how the House of Commons (and the Hse of Lords) has banned them, and yet many of them are intent on transforming our agricultural/farming system – along with trees and cows and pigs etc – into a GM system, AND, to stop labeling them (as they do now and have been for years), as in the US, and have us all eating them. And THEY don’t give a flying fuck about people getting ill from eating them over many years, because they are in the process of privatising the NHS, and that’ll mean not only more dosh for them and their buddies, but if tens or hundreds of thousands of people are dying prematurely every year as a consequence, then they’ll save £billions in pension money for them to buy more weapons etc, etc, etc. And prior to that I did two leaflets that I distributed together, one about the surreptitious and clandestine privatisation of the NHS, and the other one about a fake poll in the Sun, concocted and contrived to make Junior Doctors (who were taking industrial action at the time) look like hypocrites:
Survey shows 93% of junior doctors would back a fully privatised health service if it meant a pay increase
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2323924/survey-shows-93-of-junior-doctors-would-back-a-fully-privatised-health-service-if-it-meant-a-pay-increase/
As Robert said, in effect, we are being taken down a darker and darker road by the fascists, and it’s the critical thinking left-wingers who will be targeted first and foremost – ie those of us who see through their lies and falsehoods and machinations, and their deceit and duplicity and, as such, pose the greatest threat to them, as we have seen during the past eleven years in particular. And apart from anything else, it’s for that reason that we need to act, and act fast. Just look at the whole Palestine Action thing that’s been happening during the past year or so, and the demonisation of the marches and marchers, and the massive stitch-up they pulled on Craig, and the A/S black op smear campaign, etc, etc, etc.
Anyway, I can’t find the DM article that I quoted from in my leaflet about GM crops and food, which was quite scathing of MPs (back then, and for many years, the DM was very much against GM crops and food, and referred to it as Frankenfood), but here’s what the Search Assist said:
MPs in the House of Commons voted to ban genetically modified (GM) foods from all parliamentary restaurants and bars. The Catering Committee formally backed this procurement restriction in November 1998, citing ethical, environmental, and consumer-choice concerns.
The Daily Mail frequently highlighted the House of Commons’ 1998 ban on GM foods, framing it as a key example of the dangers within their “Frankenfood” campaign. A notable June 2013 article reported that this restriction remained in place despite renewed government pushes to embrace GM crops, often highlighting the irony of the ban.
I don’t understand why there is so much sympathy here for the miners’ strike. I have very little respect for elected MPs, but I’d rather live in a country governed by them, than a country governed by the likes of Arthur Scargill. And “jobs” don’t exist just to give people something to do.
I’m no Thatcherite, but I’m glad she won that one.
What did the Scargill supporters want, pits to be kept open forever just to provide jobs for Scargill’s members, long after anybody uses coal? Because that’s what all the rhetoric about “preserving mining communities” logically implies.
Oh FFS! The mining industry and the unions never opposed pit closures, only the manner of their closing. An industry with 1,000,000 workers in 1914 was down to 250,000 in 1980. As for making jobs, it works for rich bastards doesn’t it?
“An industry with 1,000,000 workers in 1914 was down to 250,000 in 1980.”
This was the problem with the basis of the Miners’ Strike: it assumed that mining was like steelmaking or building cars. It isn’t. It’s an extractive industry. When you’ve got all the coal that’s in the ground out of the ground, there is no more need for the mine or the miners. The loss of jobs in the coal-mining industry is down to the lack of coal remaining to be mined, in the main part. There is also the demand for coal to be considered: who burns coal these days?
There was, and is plenty of coal to be mined in the UK. For power stations rather than home use..The problem in the past was cheap German coal from open caste mines. Money was the reason not availability.
Agreed Squeeth. Heseltine, then energy minister, received a letter from the Greens, outlinong the need to develop a new alternative energy industry base in exactly those areas most hit by pit closures to utilise the existing workforce and retrain them in these new technologies.
He declined to even answer to any of their suggestions. Communities withered away, poverty spread and so did drug use.
Alternatives for men ners were there, if pursued then, our position, not that of foreign companies, would have been in the vaguard of this industry, rather than the cold and cruel adherance to the oil and gas industry at that time, the Tories were not for turning.
Scargill would have no argument with new jobs for miners, sadly, he had no alternative to job losses.
Corbyn apologised himself into perdition, the gutless poltroon, damn him.
So, what do you think of the growing gap between the ant-Israel UK public opinion (according to 2025 Pew Research poll, 61% Britts were of “highly unfavorable” or “somewhat unfavorable” opinion of Israel while only 30% were of “very favorable” or “somewhat favorable” opinion) and the pro-Israeli stance of the ruling elites? How long can this go on, do you predict any possible consequences of this or none, etc.
I assume all those waving Israeli flags support the killing of 750 or so British people in 1948. If they do, though, nobody asks them.
A case of British history being wholly ignored by those , i.e.: Reform, Robinson, who claim to be doing their utmost for UK.
If people held up a copy of Einstein’s letter to the NYTimes, 1948, would that fall under proscription. Could Einstein be an ‘antisemite’ under the present regimes?
Long before 1948 the Zionist gangsters were “executing” British soldiers and policemen for their attempts to carry out the League of Nations mandate to govern Palestine. They were utterly cynical and cruel: anyone whom they even suspected of getting in their way was killed.
Yes, the zionists will kill anyone who gets in their way, and that includes Jews.
Yes – a classic case being the bombing of the King David Hotel.
Then there was Nakam:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakam
Perhaps soon there will be a memorial to the brave Nakam fighters in Victoria Tower Gardens, huh? Any Zionist-paid creeps on either the green or the red benches who are reading this, why not make this suggestion? It won’t do your careers any harm.
USS Liberty, JFK, RFK, 911, …
“Zionism has long poisoned the central nervous system of the UK body politic”.
And those of most other countries – China and Iran being notable and hopeful exceptions.
Part of the determined Zionist attempt to weaken and destroy Britain is support for the break-up of the nation into smaller, more digestible parts. Unfortunately, the most important step in this program is Scottish independence.
Zionists and globalists have been trying for over a century to get rid of powerful nations by encouraging separatism. Their program for Russia has been published and widely circulated: the Russian Federation is to be reduced to a loose collection of dozens or even hundreds of independent entities, each far easier to control than the mighty RF itself. Britain is already quite thoroughly divided against itself, but snapping off Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and maybe the North and West of England would complete the job.
Meanwhile the program for Israel is exactly the opposite: expand by absorbing other countries or parts of them.
I have no doubt the zionists are working hard on the Chinese elite now too
I hope that the Chinese elite will be much more resistant to Zionist pressure. In China the Old Testament cultural background, which is omnipresent in the West, is either wholly absent or at least alien and able to be objectively assessed. Presumably intelligent, educated Chinese people with mixed Confucian, Taoist, Buddhist, and Marxist ideology and a tradition of careful, patient consideration are not liable to be panicked into hasty action by subconscious fears of an angry old man in the sky. Nor eager to take part in “the Rapture” or Armageddon.
Also, few Chinese are carrying around feelings of guilt about the alleged attempt to exterminate Jews in a distant country long ago.
And I understand that the Chinese government’s top priority for some time has been the elimination of corruption.
There’s the difference. The Chinese execute or Jail the corrupt, the West promotes and worships them.
@Tom – “And I understand that the Chinese government’s top priority for some time has been the elimination of corruption.”
There is nowhere near the same level of corruption in everyday life in China that there is in Russia, Ukraine, etc. By this I mean it is not true that all officials even at petty level are on the take. Be aware, though, that 1) the police are more in evidence in China than in most other countries, and 2) the state in China is a corporate state, which is pretty much the same as one can say about most other countries, and which might be described as involving high-level corruption if one wants to use that term. (I shy way from it in this usage because it implies the existence of some kinda clean capitalist model from which there has been an aberration. There is no clean capitalist model outside of economics textbooks. All bosses are thieves and liars.)
“… Also, few Chinese are carrying around feelings of guilt about the alleged attempt to exterminate Jews in a distant country long ago …”
AFAIK, China is the only nation where Jewish communities went extinct by assimilating into the surrounding population.
Jewish and Muslim traders established trading colonies in parts of China (for example, Guangdong, Yunnan) during the Tang Dynasty period. Over the centuries, these trading colonies became more and more Sinicised through intermarriage and increasing isolation from the outside world, especially after the Ming government followed by the Qing rulers outlawed contacts between Chinese and foreigners in the 1400s. The Muslim communities survived but Jewish communities (whose numbers were small to begin with) ended up assimilated, either into Muslim communities or into the surrounding Chinese communities.
Chinese individuals who can trace their ancestry back to these original Jewish communities still have to convert to Judaism because they traced their ancestry through the male line, and their maternal ancestors were not originally Jewish.
There is still death sentencing in China, so this won’t be easy.
@Tom – To expand the point: while Jewish supremacism works on the basis of
* an assumed Jewish collective interest (this is so however much intra-communal shouting there is), and
* clarity as to immediate aims (essentially a partisan network)
in the host society it promotes
* individualism, and
* confusion.
Where do you think all the “gender” nonsense comes from?
Democratic self-determination is all a Zionist plot to break up a UK state that is already Zionist-controlled ? I recall being told it was Russia, Iran, China, North Korea (or whichever bogeyman can be thought up) who were trying to “break up” the UK.
The next pages of the imperialist’s mantra:
“Separatist regions (never admit they are colonies seeking democratic self-determination)”:
“Too small, too poor, too stupid etc”
and
“the dominating imperial power is doing them a favour by ruling them”,
and
“they couldn’t exist without the imperial power”, blah blah blah.
“Democratic self-determination is all a Zionist plot to break up a UK state that is already Zionist-controlled?”
No, Colin. “I have said what I have said. I have not said what I have not said”.
This is what I said:
“Part of the determined Zionist attempt to weaken and destroy Britain is support for the break-up of the nation into smaller, more digestible parts”.
I hope you can see the difference.
A gets control over B.
Never forget the aim is profit and increasing the tightness of A’s grip, or the “concentration of capital” as Marx called it, or “meta” as I believe is the preferred word in the financial markets and at Google.
So A uses its control to get more control and more profit. One method it uses is to destabilise B and make it uncertain (to B) what’s going to happen to B. (For examples, see the Kryuchkov coup in the USSR and the entry into politics of a NYC billionaire wrestling reality-TV guy in the USA. How’s that going to pan out? See also many other things in the world. Who really knows, for example, whether NATO and Russia will be at full-scale war before the 2020s are out?)
There are clues in books such as Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens” and Stephen Pinker’s “The Blank Slate” if you know how to read them. Treating ideas as if they are things. Knowing how to grasp “functional fluidity” rather than “functional fixity”. (Aka having an eye for the main chance.)
The members of the host country’s elite don’t know WTF is happening – not just if they’re in the Cabinet, but also if they’re in the military, the senior civil service, the City of London, MI6, or wherever. Stuff can happen as if out of the blue, underlining to them their own weakness. The message they get? Just do as you’re told, don’t ever get the idea of doing anything else, and if you’re lucky we may see you’re okay. Just keep your eyes down. Some such as Simon Cowell, Jimmy Savile, and Michael Gove relish the position of being “favoured” – they really get into the idea that “I’m with the Jews. It’s really cruel here in the real world, and yes I am a super-c*nt, it’s dog eat dog, no time for losers. The IDF should get the Nobel Peace Prize,” etc.
Colonised peoples are told by supporters of the imperial power that the imperial power’s influence is benign and altruistic.
Conversely, Independence or self-determination movements are routinely accused of being the result of malign foreign influences rather than the colonised peoples themselves seeking political self-determination.
Pejorative language such as “separatist”, “divide” to describe independence movements and “togetherness” “unity” “one nation” etc to describe the imperial power, is also a well established biased choice of language (propaganda) used by imperial powers against colonised people who seek political self-determination.
“Britain is already quite thoroughly divided against itself, but snapping off Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and maybe the North and West of England would complete the job.”
Would that be a bad thing? At least it might stop our leaders strutting about as if Britain was still a world power. How has the latest example of Britian meddling in other countries’ affairs that have f*ck all to do with it, the war in Ukraine, benefited the country outside a few arms manufacturers and some right-wing hotheads going and getting themselves killed?
I sympathise with your sentiment, Bayard, but that seems to me too much like throwing out the baby with the bath water. Ending the aggression of the British elites is a difficult problem, but I don’t see that any manipulation of national borders will do the trick. Even if all the smaller parts of Britain gained independence, I am sure that England – or its rump – would go on much as before.
What we really need, I submit, is a government that aims to represent the interests and wishes of the whole citizen body. Very difficult, I agree – but nothing else will address the real issue.
The tide may be turning, because the Gaza genocide and the sub-human treatment of Palestinian prisoners (e.g. that of Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh) are unforgettable. Making known books like Ilan Pappé’s A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict or documentary films like Israelism should also help.
‘The tide may be turning, because the Gaza genocide’
Not the tide of your support for Genocide Keir and the zionist British establishment.
The second part doesn’t make sense, since I would like there to be sanctions to bring an end to Israeli apartheid and genocide.
No. What doesn’t make sense is claiming to be anti-genocide while being an *ardent* supporter of key participants in the Gaza Genocide like Starmer and a derider of anti-Genocide parties and politicians. Or can you explain why it does actually make sense?
No. What doesn’t make sense is claiming to be anti-genocide while being an *ardent* supporter of key Genocide participants and persecutor of its opponents like Starmer, and a derider of anti-Genocide parties and politicians.
Or maybe you can explain why it does make sense?
I don’t ardently support genociders, nor deride anti-genocide parties, so that’s not my problem.
I do recommend Miko Peled’s book The General’s Son (ISBN 9781682570999). Here is an excellent review by Susan Abulhawa on the Electronic Intifada.
It is not just you. Several regular commenters on this site affect to be appalled by the genocide but won’t acknowledge, much less condemn, the participation of their own government, media, armed forces.
I suspect this cognitive dissonance is informed by a need to believe Britain is one of the good guys.
In 2026 there is a second essential requirement for full embrace by the political and media establishment — militarism.
Andy Burnham gets it. In the wake of last week’s elections he said that he would only break Reeves’ fiscal straightjacket for more guns and bombs.
Andy believes defence spending should be taken out of the fiscal rules, and there should be a major change to UK policy to fund an increase in defence spending through borrowing.
Reeves’ fiscal rules must otherwise ‘stay in any context,’ Andy says. But ‘there’s certainly a case, when we look at the pressure on defence spending, to consider that exceptionally outside of the rules.’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/burnham-urges-new-direction-after-may-vote-labour-s-set-to-lose?embedded-checkout=true
Labour’s saviour and prince across the water … one more zionist warmonger.
The fact is, as previously discussed, virtually ALL MoD projects exceed their budgets and timescales. Like the NHS, throwing more money at a failing organisation is madness and will accomplish nothing but increased debt.
The whole ediface is incompetent and corrupt and needs to be torn down and reassessed as to what UK ‘defence’ should actually look like in the 21st century. None of the passengers on the gravy train will ever admit that.
Andy “Rearmament” Burnham deserves to be crowned king of the pisstakers for his promotion of a large-scale increase in government borrowing while not being in hock to the bond market.
Good article on the background to where we are today.
“Christian Zionism: What it is and how it affects the US and Israel”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/christian-zionism-what-is-it-how-affects-us-israel
Since no British Minister of the Crown will face legal consequences for enacting government policy in the UK, even if it does serve only the interests of a foreign power and is therefore de facto treason, does that explain Keir Starmer’s apparent terror at being ejected from office and facing the prospect of being rendered to an international court? Surely this is a precedent both long-overdue and increasingly likely? Or will we see an ex-Minister fleeing for sanctuary to such a foreign power they are beholden to first? Something that foreign power might be keen to avoid?
A wee bit of good news.
“Following an attempt by Mr Justice Johnson to prosecute Palestine Action barrister for “contempt of court” after his closing speech mentioned the legal principle known as:
“jury Equity”, Rajiv Menon has won his appeal”
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may/12/palestine-action-trial-lawyer-wins-appeal-contempt-court-charge
“Menon’s solicitor, Jenny Wiltshire, from Hickman & Rose, said: “Rajiv is delighted that the court of appeal has found in his favour and decided that the Filton trial judge did not have the power to refer him directly to the high court to be prosecuted for contempt of court and that the high court did not have the power to accept the reference in the absence of an application by the attorney general in the public interest.”
This seems to mean that next time the trial judge will send the file to the attorney general. This is unless the trial judge has had his fingers rapped for issuing a faulty direction, namely the direction that Menon was accused of breaching.
The big question is whether defence barristers will now be able to follow in Menon’s footsteps. Or will a cloth need to be hung over that plaque at the Old Bailey.
Blind justice or blind to justice.
“A wee bit of good news.”
Indeed! I wonder what its value as a precedent is likely to be.
The good news is balanced by the report that a “terrorism connection” was added to the filton defendants case, which the jury was not told about. This factor means they can be sentenced as terrorists, which could increase the time they spend in custody or conditions upon release
America today, the UK tomorrow, perhaps !
“Is Israel Losing Its Death Grip on American Politics”
https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/is-israel-losing-its-death-grip-on
Amen! I think it’s especially true in the younger generation like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, not to mention Jewish activists like Simone Zimmerman.
What is AOC’s line? Does she back one Palestine from the river to the sea? Registration of AIPAC under FARA? (Foreign Agents Registration Act)?
Her line belatedly changed after intense criticism to acknowledge that it’s a genocide. However, having accepted Israel is a genocidal state, she still voted to send it $500 billion for ‘defensive’ weapons. Also notoriously lied at the Democrat convention that Kamala Harris was ‘working tirelessly’ for a ceasefire.
It’s been noted that AOC’s political career was launched by two Israeli venture capitalists, echoes of our own dear Lammy. Unlike Lammy she does at least acccept that what is happening in Gaza is genocide and has not claimed that Palestinians rape babies.
* $500 million
Who’s AOC?
Agreed Squeeth. Heseltine, then energy minister, received a letter from the Greens, outlinong the need to develop a new alternative energy industry base in exactly those areas most hit by pit closures to utilise the existing workforce and retrain them in these new technologies.
He declined to even answer to any of their suggestions. Communities withered away, poverty spread and so did drug use.
Alternatives for men ners were there, if pursued then, our position, not that of foreign companies, would have been in the vaguard of this industry, rather than the cold and cruel adherance to the oil and gas industry at that time, the Tories were not for turning.
Scargill would have no argument with new jobs for miners, sadly, he had no alternative to job losses.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bayard,. She’s been the Democratic Party Representative for New York’s 14th district since 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez
I have been reading an edited collection of Eleanor Roosevelt’s My Day columns, and 1941 she makes reference (her style sometimes a bit elliptical, but the commentary spells more out) to the pro-fascist tendencies of the America First and similar coalitions who wanted negotiated peace with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The editor David Emblidge notes the First Lady’s shift in stance from pacifism to anti-fascism. She also introduces the British delegation after Pearl Harbour.
So, I checked some of these USAmerican organisations out on Wikipedia, which led to the British Security Co-ordination influence operation MI6 apparently ran in the USA to, among other things, influence elections towards war. It’s mentioned in a couple of 1943 records in the National Archives, and a few times in a book on MI6 which only goes up to 1949.
My limited understanding of such clandestine wartime state organs is that they didn’t simply close up shop, but were officially closed and secretly reconstituted under different names. So, what was the successor of the British Security Co-ordination organisation?
Dunno but there may be some useful info in Carroll Quigley’s work somewhere.
If there’s an answer, whatever the org was called it didn’t seem to exert much influence in Washington DC during Suez in 1956 if it still existed then – any more than the British regime retained much influence in the part of Palestine occupied by Jewish supremacists after the British departed (unlike in Jordan).
It’s curious that Franklin Roosevelt spoke English with such British tones in his accent… When I looked at this area many years ago, I formed the preliminary opinion (pending further reading) that he began as a British asset and then turned the tables.
@Brian Red, thanks, although I gather British Security Co-ordination originally had a hemispheric focus, and I imagine its postwar successor probably moved its HQ and key staff to someplace like Bermuda, between Canada and the Caribbean keeping close contact with the USA, and its influence focus to suppressing support for Independence movements. They would have been concerned with things like the 1953 British Guiana general election. I doubt the Colonial Office was merely relying on “hearsay from paid informants to the police”, as the linked Guardian article says. I don’t know if they’d have trusted the Governor Generals with knowledge of such operations or not. Royal visits and their drummed-up media coverage might have been an excuse to lay more undersea cables.
Obviously I’m interested in where such influence organisations went next, and what colonial tactics they brought home, but remain concerned about the peoples who were kept in propaganda-soaked bondage on territories far from Scotland.
I’m not sure if the British secret black propaganda group the IRD or its Special Editorial Unit operated in the Western hemisphere, or ever came into conflict with USAmerican agencies, but Declassified UK says there’s a bunch of new files released (but still with redactions) to the National Archives, and a new book is out, which I take to be Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line, by Rory Cormac.
May I offer the term “institutionally Zionist” as a descriptor of the British and US political and media systems.
The UK legal system’s very good at pretending its independent of establishment politics, and this latest farce is no different.
PA’s proscription proved them the only effective protest movement in the country. And the establishment have been scrabbling around to have their cake and eat it ever since – bang them up, stop others joining in, then do the legal two-step to both screw them, and yet look like its all somehow both legal and civilised. Its not. Its a fucking police state in hock to genociders, the mic and finance.
All the performative crap in the courts, including the latest appeal “success” is total bollix. Craig, after suffering through Salmond and Assange, should really know by now that the whole fucking lot’s a scam.
Meanwhile Crosland is still proving himself a spycop or a useful idiot by getting every activist in the nation to hand themselves, their faces, their fingerprints, their details and their DNA into the pigs for a terrorist charge, which will change lives and ability to move and travel and exist. Great plan. Not. Over ten thousand so far via XR, JSO and PA. Even giving him the benefit of the doubt, now the system hasn’t been flooded, and nothing has been gained and lots has been lost perhaps time to reconsider that strategy now?
Zionists are not a lobby, they are a proxy so that the management can blame the contractor over ending Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, freedom of expression, freedom of conscience etc. That’s why British politicians conflate Jews with zionists when we know that Jews are the followers of a religion and zionists are secular, racist, fascist, antisemitic and genocidal criminals against peace, criminals against humanity and war criminals. Netanyahu doesn’t belong in the Hague, he should be at Nuremberg.
Can you list any synagogues that have stopped supporting Israel due to the Genocide?
The majority of Jews are zionists, not all but the majority. Face up to that fact.
It’s impossible to know that for sure, but I fear that you are probably right about the majority. Part of the reason is that Zionist propaganda has been directed towards everyone, including Jews. As Miko Peled has explained, from his own experience growing up in Jerusalem, the Israeli education system embeds false beliefs in children starting from the beginning of primary school; it’s extremely difficult for people to overcome that early indoctrination, just as it is difficult for children brought up as Roman Catholics to question church dogma later in life.
All the more reason to respect those who have the courage and independence of mind to go against the majority.
Maybe an argument for the banning of religious schools ? Integration into the mainstream community would potentially stop a lot of the indoctrination of children and deliver better balanced citizens. Just saying.
Zionism has poisoned Western politics but the cumulative effects of the Gaza Genocide and the Israel/US war of choice against Iran has turned world opinion against both these aggressive regimes, notably the Iran war had only 30% support in the US and a quite shocking reversal of support for Israel, especially in younger voters.
“When you strike at a King, you must not miss him” [Ralph Waldo Emerson]. The US/Israel did miss,therefore those who attempted it are in desperate trouble. Because the US/Israel cannot defeat the new King, Iran. by land sea or air, they must accept the new reality and try to come to terms with it [no matter how painful]. Just as important are the GCC countries who were encouraged to believe the all powerful US would protect them and their thrones in all circumstances, wrong, those US bases are now rubble, their unbeatable and much vaunted missile defence systems do not work as claimed by US propaganda, the warnings given by MIT Professor Ted Postol that those systems were overrated and for the most part ineffectual were dismissed [in the cause of weapons sales to satraps eager to please their US overlords you understand.
In my opinion this US/Israel ‘war of choice’ will be pivotal to the balance of power in the region, the GCC countries knowing they have bought ‘a pig in a poke’ surely will not double down on failure by backing further US/Israeli aggression, and will try to accommodate the new power in the land, Iran and the ‘arc of resistance’. Failure to do this will mean they will be destroyed, along with the world economy
Netanyahu understood that Iran and the ‘arc of resistance’ was the only obstacle in the way of his ‘greater Israel project’, so they had to go. Unfortunately for Israel and the US, they have bitten off more than they can chew. Iran backed by China and Russia will not capitulate
Never thought I could agree with that arch Neocon and husband of Victoria Nuland, well here we are…
An op-ed, by arch-neoconservative Robert Kagan in the pro-war Atlantic, presents a depressing view of the US war against Iran..
“II’s hard to think of a time when the United States suffered a total defeat in a conflict, a setback so decisive that the strategic loss could be neither repaired nor ignored.
…”Defeat in the present confrontation with Iran will be of an entirely different character. It can neither be repaired nor ignored. There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done. The Strait of Hormuz will not be “open,” as it once was. With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world. The roles of China and Russia, as Iran’s allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished. Far from demonstrating American prowess, as supporters of the war have repeatedly claimed, the conflict has revealed an America that is unreliable and incapable of finishing what it started. That is going to set off a chain reaction around the world as friends and foes adjust to America’s failure.
Kagan acknowledges that the U.S. has no way out of its dilemma:” https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/05/war-on-iran-saudis-blame-israel-neocon-grandee-concedes-defeat.html
Cookie Monster and her hubby may well be distancing themselves from that neocon crowd surrounding the Trump administration, in the possible case that in future the entire administration and Washington DC apparatus are put on trial and made to account for their past actions and decisions. At least Robert Kagan can say he tried warning the Trump administration through op-eds and articles like this.
Today Wes Streeting, international backed up Zioman to back the take the last vestiges of our public health service, has seen the kidshooters spineless Starmzki to tell him he is resigning for a PM contest real or staged.
The Zionists are choosing their next PM for us, after promoting most of the cabinets ministers with bakshish they can choose.
We should reject any of them as PM.
Unfortunately, nevermind, in order to be able to reject any hopeful as the next PM – e.g. by spoiling my ballot by scrawling: ‘Wanna know my favourite Labour prime minister? The next one that dies – and I hope it’s Blair because I really hate it that that **** is still alive’ on it – I would have to give money to the Labour Party, which I don’t want to do.
(Believe it or not, three of the seven Labour prime ministers have had the first name James – and none of them were Jim Callaghan. His first name was Leonard.)
Public service announcement:
If anyone’s wondering who the next UK prime minister is going to be, that will be because ZOG is yet to make its final decision.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Craig, I have followed your posts for years and found them credible, evidence based and persuasive.
On this post, I disagree. I am more than willing to discuss any point made, listen to arguments from either side. That has been my approach to matters involving the Israel/Palestine conflict (for want of a better word);Zionism (from Herzl to the current day);the Palestinian resistance movement (from pre-1967 to the present) and so on.
My personal position is as someone who lived with a Jewish woman for many years, who had minimal prior knowledge of these matters and then read exhaustively. My conclusions were strongly opposed to Israel and unsympathetic to their supporters and the so-called lobby.
So, why do I reject what you have written? It is that you refuse to recognise the actual physical threats faced by jews going about their daily lives. Their right to safety is not conditional – nor is anyone else’s.
In case you wish to experience this hostility for yourself, you could do worse than on your next trip to London, walk up the Edgware Road from Marble Arch to Maida Vale. For extra style points, you could wear a black wig. Even better wear a kippah. No harm will come to you, provided you don’t stray away from the cameras. But, you will, I think sense a frisson and perhaps understand Jews position.
Better still, have a few beers first in Paddington!
Maybe raise your issues with your MP, I’m sure they’d be sympathetic, rather than trying to censor our host.
I rather doubt Jews have it worse than other minorities. Most minorities have a tough time.
If walking through London’s Arab community is threatening and dangerous for Jews we would have seen any number of zionist personalities – including politicians and journalists – exposing it with hidden cameras, knowing the results would be headlined and broadcast worldwide.
Try walking a mile as a woman ….you will encounter far more threat…
a nun is Jerusalem?
imagine walking a mile as a Palestinian child….
two tier judicial system in a captured state and suppression of democracy creates frustration and even outbursts but this is miniscule, compared to daily violence against women around the world,
and the people who are deemed expendable, in order for the globalists to extract mineral wealth, artificialally inflate markets and redirecting goods and stealing land out of ideology of greed power and supremacy.
We are all under threat now, our very existence, but it is other people who are being murdered in their millions
Women (and girls) have always been shouted at in the street, chased and assaulted by strangers as wells as victims of violence by people they know or are related to. For safety’s sake they are taught to turn the other cheek, but that often enrages men.
There should be no “them” and “us” othering women as objects, “othering” non Jews as people to exploit and murder. Zionism might be a political ideology but exceptionalism has no place in humanity. You are not an exceptional victim. But your religion doesn’t seem to allow for the equal rights of women ..let alone anyone else.
I wasn’t aware there was a Zionist connection to Blair’s decision to move Robin Cook out of the Foreign Office. Wikipedia fwiw says “According to The Observer, it was Blair’s fears over political battles within the Cabinet over Europe, and especially the Euro, which saw him demote the pro-European Cook.”
Cook, who left his wife of 28 years at Heathrow having taken her there on the understanding they were going on holiday, only to tell her in the departure lounge that he was dumping her for his secretary, is often misrepresented as having had some sort of moral principles because he used the Iraq war as an opportunity to get back at Blair for his demotion, although while he was foreign secretary he never gave the slightest indication of being any less of a bloodthirsty warhawk than Blair himself. He was one of three British war criminals sentenced to 20 years by a Yugoslav court for his part in the cluster bombing of Serbian marketplaces, among other heinous crimes.
I suppose he may have been an antizionist, but not every career that goes sideways does so because of the Jews.
Presumably, Robin Cook’s ‘ethical foreign policy’ was a bit too ethical for Blair after a while. Plus, anyone who, even after leaving the post, stands up in the House of Commons and declares “there is no terrorist group called Al-Qaeda and any informed intelligence officer knows this” has to be pretty brave and principled. Possibly it cost Cook his life as David Kelly’s honesty cost his. Cook’s position and personal life always suggested too that he might have been vulnerable to a honeytrap, and certainly, even in the climate of 1990s journalism, those lurid tales about his extramarital affairs seemed a bit too well-informed and scurrilous.
I can only assume you were not around at the time. Everything I said is established fact. The laughable “ethical foreign policy” which required Cook’s enthusiastic support for the bombing of Serbia and, yes, Iraq, was an obvious piece of hucksterism.
King Charles was accompanied by the Chief Rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, in a visit to Golders Green today. Some of Mirvis’s comments are quite controversial, among other things he’s said:
Israeli soldiers are “our heroes” and added “it is so important that Israel should succeed in her efforts to guarantee peace”.
It was revealed in January 2024 that his son serves in the Israeli forces.
Mirvis has strongly condemned accusations of genocide against Israel, calling such claims a “troubling moral deceit”.
He expressed that the UK government’s decision to suspend some arms sales to Israel “beggars belief”.
Are these really the views Charles wants to associate himself with?
Big ears would have felt right at home in the company of the genocide supporting pedos. Maybe he could tell them stories of how his inbred relations have been oppressing the British for 1,000 years, or how his family supported the nazis, or compare circumcision scars. Time these useless oxygen thieves were consigned to history. Apart from embarrassment what purpose do these f*ckers serve.
Irene Montero, MP from leftwing spanish party Podermos, blast Kaja Kalla for her inaction when Israel kidnap european citizens on the Gaza Flotillas:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RPymk8AKQdE?cbrd=1
Look how arrogant Kallas act, smirking and whispering with her table mate like some unruly, spoiled girl in high school!
Another videoclip I want to share is between the cocky neo-cons Mike Pompeo and Victoria Nuland vs John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B1jhrg1DjhQ
The arrogance or rather ignorance and belittling is striking by Nuland and Pompeo, they have not learned one thing from these horrible neocon-wars past 20 years! Even the Biden administration denied – at the time – that there was any proof that Iran had any hand in the october 7 attack.