Monday 7 August 2023

Unite bans members from screening film on Jeremy Corbyn.

 

Jeremy Corbyn and Asa Winstanley

The cat is now out of the bag. The trade union Unite, ordered their Bristol Community Union Branch, not to show the film 'Oh Jeremy Corbyn/The Big Lie', which purports to expose the use of false anti-semitism claims to bring down Jeremy Corbyn and the left in the Labour Party. 

Unite, also demanded that the branch cancel a discussion of the book "Weaponising Anti-,Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn", by Asa Winstanley, of the Electronic Intifada.

The blog called Skwawkbox, alleges that emails from Unites Assistant General Secretary, Gail Cartmail, show that she was acting on the instructions of the General Secretary of Unite, Sharon Graham. Skwawkbox, also claims that Unite were acting on a complaint that they had received from the pro-Israel pressure group called the 'Campaign Against Antisemitism'.

I've always believed that the charge of antisemitism within the Labour Party were both spurious and a ruse designed to bring down Jeremy Corbyn. Yet, Corbyn bought into it, and claimed that party members who denied that Labour had a problem with antisemitism, were part of the problem. He also looked the other way when his own comrades and supporters were thrown under a bus, after being falsely accused of being anti-Semites.

What puzzles me is why Unite donates millions of pounds to a political party that is led by a louse, like Sir Keir Starmer, who wouldn't be seen dead on a picket line, denies that Israel is an apartheid state, and who says he supports Zionism "without qualification."

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