The conspiracy that toppled Jeremy Corbyn.

 

I always thought that all the brouhaha about antisemitism being rife in Corbyn's Labour Party, was absolute nonsense. I suppose you can find anti-Semites anywhere, but do they really join the Labour Party?

This conspiracy orchestrated by political opponents of Jeremy Corbyn, was always about bringing down Jeremy Corbyn. We we're told that a Corbyn Labour government would pose "an existential threat" to Jews living in Britain. Even today, certain Labour figures continue to wonder why Angela Rayner and Keir Starmer campaigned twice - in 2017 and 2019 - to get Corbyn elected into 10 Downing Street, if they harboured serious suspicions about Corbyn's attitude towards the so-called Jewish community. Keir Starmer succeeded Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party and ripped up everything that Corbyn stood for. He excluded Corbyn from the Parliamentary Labour Party, and sought to keep those on the left, from being adopted as Labour candidates.

In September 2018, Angela Rayner had stated that opponents of Corbyn and Labour, would need a "bigger smear" if they were to succeed in undermining the party. In October 2020, Rayner was publicly accused of having expressed anti-Semitic views herself by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA). Four months before becoming an MP, Rayner had referenced a book called the 'Holocaust Industry' by Norman Finkelstein in an article written for the Morning Star in 2015. Rayner is thought to have asked somebody else to write the article for her. The book had suggested that some members of the Jewish community exploit the Holocaust for political and financial advantage. Rayner had praised Finkelstein's book as 'seminal'. She was forced to make an apology, claiming that there had been a misunderstanding.