The line crossed by Starmer over Israel is far more dangerous than anything proposed by Corbyn
The contested events of 7 October are purported to be an act of provocation by Hamas against Israel. In all truth the evidence is increasingly showing this is part-fiction, forming the pretext to escalation of violence against Palestine by a viciously hostile ruling class in Israel. Moreover, the political will to sustain this injustice against the peaceable people of Palestine is strong, binding together political malefactors around the world – especially Keir Starmer‘s administration in the context of UK politics.
Israel: advancing geopolitical hegemony
Israel is deliberately endangering national, regional, and global security in pursuit of geopolitical dominance in the Middle East, increasing the risk to civilian lives on both sides of the apartheid divide in the process and desecrating the spirit of human rights legislation.
Ultimately the motive for erasing Palestine is to establish total regional dominance for the Israeli state, administered by a government completely invested in the advancement of geopolitical hegemony. This is not world domination waged because of belief in the supremacy of a discrete, distinct, singular ethnic or religious demographic.
This is the work of a covert, clandestine, and unaccountable band of transnational elites whose bind transcends the illusory boundaries of nation, language or religion deployed to pacify civilians.
The only interest Israeli elites have in the fate of the Jewish diaspora is in how serviceable Jews can be for legitimising its diabolical agenda. Israel sustains a large proportion of its support through a reckless and insidious appropriation of the legacy of the Holocaust, in order to inoculate itself from legitimate, righteous criticism. At the same time, the Israeli ruling class projects an image of itself as a righteous victim through means of tightly controlled propaganda.
The technological capabilities of tools of combat, as well power for narrative management are slanted seemingly to the disadvantage of Palestine, but despite this asymmetry of strategic capabilities the consensus globally is decidedly at odds with Israel and its plan.
Despite the abject horror of the massive loss of life in the Middle East right now, the mood of the global community as a whole is in favour of peaceful multilateralism, condemning imperial unilateral interventionism technically illegal under international law.
The effect on the Labour Party
The tragic, cynically calculated decline of Corbynism, as well as the subsequent ascendancy of the neo-Blairite Starmer project, have made the Labour Party a lot less free and was the direct result of massive conspiracy to prevent the election of a pro-Palestinian prime minister.
When Starmer’s great power games started – after being elected on an ultimately insincere manifesto of party unity – firm censorship and propaganda was introduced to neutralise the threat the Labour Party’s democratic socialist faction posed to the status quo, which views free thinking and true democracy as an existential threat.
One particularly vicious manifestation of this campaign is in the alliance between Zionist diplomacy and the Starmer administration, who ideologically converge.
It’s usually condemned as antisemitism when people speculate about possible infiltration of Labour by Mossad and it certainly does have overtones of racist theories about the Jewish “cabal.”
However my interest is not in asking if the global Jewish diaspora is a monolith with malicious intent; it evidently is not.
My interest is in analysing and examining the political machinery of imperialism and any reasonable explanation of the shifting balance of power in geopolitics after WW2 would acknowledge the rapid escalation of the Israeli secret service, Mossad. It is not antisemitism to criticise intervention in the politics of another country by an intelligence agency.
It’s standard procedure of intelligence cabals to interfere in foreign affairs and it is as true of Mossad as it is of MI6, the CIA, and other agencies. It is the modus operandi which bothers me, not the ethnic identity of its employees.
Neutralising pro-Palestinian voices
There is obviously influence for Zionist diplomacy over the Starmer administration, an alliance which created the necessity for Labour’s bureaucrats to embark upon a McCarthyist pursuit of its political enemies, and in the process controlling and narrowing the spectrum of acceptable opinion within the party to ostracise pro-Palestinian sentiment.
This is a post-democratic era, characterised by escalated warfare against the left, locally, nationally, and globally, effectively ending free and fair elections.
The Labour leadership’s list of enemies has grown to embrace, beyond Jeremy Corbyn, a large amount of the party membership he’s allied with. The Israeli ruling class and its perverse ethno-nationalist ideology fuelling genocide of Palestinians is perhaps the preeminent enemy of Corbynism and the main focus of its ire.
Thus the regime has a strong motivation to eliminate and neutralise the influence of a pro-Palestinian, anti-imperial possible future prime minister. Once you understand characteristic imperial tactics and Machiavellian rubric, the true state of affairs becomes clear.
Starmer, not content with kicking out Corbyn, is even making enemies of grassroots activists, people of integrity keen for a civic-minded debate on his controversial decision to suspend and remove the whip from Corbyn.
It is certainly wrong to penalise free discussion of policy within the confines of the law of this country. Starmer is an adversary to Labour socialism because of his agenda to capitulate policy to the needs of big business donors. Most of his positions are the same as the Tory government’s, making it possible to see Starmer’s Labour and the Tories as one entity, the same power, despite surface differences and a very, very slightly more hospitable environment for social justice movements in the event of a Starmer government.
Intersecting with the Tory hard-right
An example of the intersection between the hard right Tory government and Starmer is the Parliamentary Labour Party’s (PLP’s) support for a surge in war spending, favouring bombs over investment in public services. It is not a delusional adherence to a 1960s political fantasy to suggest that taxpayer money could be better invested in schools, libraries, and hospitals, it is simply common sense and pragmatic utilitarianism (maximise positive outcomes for the maximum number of people).
During moments like the coronavirus crisis, Starmer has been hesitant to present an alternative opposition to government policy, erring on the side of praise. His biggest commitment to the agenda of the right, however, comes from his rehearsal of pro-Zionist propaganda, with “antisemitism” being cynically used as a political tool behind the bludgeoning of apologist arguments for Israeli war crimes into public discourse.
This repellent, opportunistic abuse of antisemitism was repeated throughout the media’s attempts to discredit Corbyn, so much so that they were able to destroy his reputation as a principled, veteran anti-racist. At one point, former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, another ally of Zionist extremism, claimed that he would use his power to prevent Corbyn’s election when in fact that decision lies squarely with the sovereign UK electorate, or at least ought to.
Such blatant Zionist interference in the internal democracy of the Labour Party was not acknowledged by the political mainstream, because these truthful, accurate narratives are portrayed as the antisemitic enemy to Israeli self-determination. The tale the establishment tells is one of widespread, aggressive chauvinism against Jews, against which their allies must be eternally vigilant.
This story is disinformation, and the Labour left has collapsed under pressure from the political agents perpetuating this falsehood.
The new McCarthyism
The happenings of recent politics have proven that this information war and narrative control mission is focused not just on Corbyn, but on the entire alliance he galvanised.
In response to internal party debate about the suspension and removal of the whip, party bureaucrats have suspended dozens of innocent members conscientiously questioning the leadership. The reporting on this development by the progressive, independent left media, which has rightly criticised Starmer’s nascent dictatorship, might be right, but it is not the view of the political establishment, largely sympathetic to the persecution of Corbynism.
So far the media has ignored that Starmer crosses a line far more dangerous than what’s represented by Corbyn.
The examples never end of the political policing of supporters of the Labour left, representing the agenda of a totalitarian regime that’s emerged during the new McCarthyism. To enforce this regime, the establishment has needed to reconcile the public to their own suppression. To rationalise its persecution of Corbynism, elites have treated it as a form of ideological extremism, with the implicit assumption that Blairite centrism is the only agenda deserving of time, attention, and respect.
Policies crafted in the public interest generate outrage, while the cronyism and corruption of the centre is viewed as a standard.
The leader of the opposition isn’t allowed to advocate policies that will resonate with the electorate, while the government is able to spin its self-serving policies in the media. And the narrow agenda of corporatocracy is protected by the media-politico complex, whilst the accurate criticisms levelled against it by independent media analysts is censored on social media.
Resistance that precedes change
This commitment to capitalist totalitarianism among elites – and therefore to the type of fascist reaction the West has so long thought itself immune from – is rationalised through the logic that it is a radical, progressive resistance to left fundamentalism. The monolithic ideology of capitalist realism has conquered heterogeneous, pluralist social democracy, making the superiority of the neoliberal regime the default assumption of the dominant political centre.
Buoyant radical hope for a Corbynite restoration of the UK’s neoliberal political economy to its former glory as a world-leading social democracy has been betrayed by a violent crackdown. Reactionary in nature, the censorship and propaganda that’s occurring is imposed by authoritarianism, because it’s built upon hierarchical, elitist power. And authoritarian hierarchical, elitist power is a system that’s evolved to efficiently exploit the weaknesses of the people.
The thought police of the ascendant Labour right yield authority from the aggressive Zionist psyops the elite class is happy to rehearse, and from the logic that Corbyn represents a fundamentalist threat to political virtues.
Until we can next reelect a socialist to the leadership of the Labour Party, the best we can do to resist these cynical, opportunistic attacks on democracy is to insist on fearlessly having the debate that Starmer so fears.
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How can you compare this vile creature to Corbyn it would have been a better Britain if we had Corbyn
Parts of this article sound like the ravings of a Neo Nazi nutcase.Let me make sure Ive got this right.Its not remotely anti semetic to say that the only Jewish country in the world is at the centre of vast conspiracy to destroy freedom and democracy.Its not anti semetic to say that that the massacre of October 7th didnt really happen.I think it is a pity that the Canary isnt more widely read because then most sane people would realise just how vile and disgusting the far left is in this country .
By your definition it is anti Semitic to oppose the slaughter of thousands of innocent people. By your definition it is anti Semitic to be concerned that Israel’s intention is to kill as many Palestinians as possible. You are a very sick individual and need psychiatric help.
I’m Jewish, so you can point the finger of anti-semitism at me if you wish, but it won’t rub. I find little to disagree with in this article apart from the writer’s language around the October 7th attack. Using the word ‘contested’ in this context is ill-judged. The attack and the intent to murder are not contested. What is contested is the actual number of victims who died at the hands of Hamas operatives as opposed to those that died as a result of the poorly-led Israeli counter attack. But as for the rest of it? To me, it was pretty much spot on. Supporters of Israel habitually fund the campaigns of many leading US politicians and have done for many years. They also fund campaigns for candidates to run against those who speak out in support of the Palestinian cause. In the British Labour Party, many of the biggest ‘names’ were and may still be, members of ‘Labour Friends of Israel’, a lobby group within the party that exists solely to lobby on that state’s behalf. Imagine if there were a group called ‘Labour Friends of the Russian Federation’ or ‘Labour Friends of Myanmar’ whose membership represented an elite within the Labour Party? There would be a public outcry. The Jewish Labour Movement, whose membership in the past at least has included former employees of the Israeli embassy, is another lobby group within the Labour Party that wields disproportionate power, running obligatory ‘anti-semitism re-education’ sessions for party members that essentially re-enforce the view that voicing criticism of Israel is in itself, antisemitic and likely to get an individual expelled and therefore best avoided as an issue per se. Of course let’s not forget, despite the world media’s best efforts to ‘bury’ it, the revelations of an Israeli-funded (and sadly successful) campaign to remove Jeremy Corbyn from his position that were exposed in the 2017 documentary ‘The Lobby’ where the London-based Israeli agent Shai Masot openly boasted of having £1 million at his disposal to fund campaigns aimed at destroying Corbyn’s credibility and power base. I could bore on with many more examples of Israel’s ‘hand’ in manipulating the politics of the West, but you probably won’t even read this far. So to conclude, as a Jewish person who is also quite proud to be British, I see Israel as a malicious foreign power with undue and sinister influence in this country’s politics in the same way that some might view The Russian Federation or China and personally, I see their actions, not least as a result of their own past efforts to link Jews and Zionism in the minds of non-Jews, as representing an existensial threat to the longterm safety of all Jews in the diaspora. Not that Israelis care a jot about the wellbeing of Jews who choose NOT to live in Israel.
Thank you for a considered comment and for drawing attention to the issues with some of my wording/phrasing
I never suggested that the entire Israeli (predominantly Jewish) population is at the centre of the problem, I clearly blamed the Israeli ruling class, whose interests and agendas are not necessarily synonymous with those of Jews at large.
I only agree with S.V in one respect –
I think that this article hits the nail right on the head and should be compulsory reading by all who want to know the truth.
And there is so much more detail to relate about the origins of the racist and terrorist state of Israel, and how it works so hard to cloak its ethno-supremacist ideology in contrived arguments about anti-Semitism.
The actions of the Israeli State are doing more harm to the international diaspora of Jewish people than any Nazi nutcases could manage if they tried.
Contested events of the 7th October? What bit of the massacre of innocent women and children and the taking of 200 hostages is contested? Years in the planning, the massacre was Israel’s 9/11,with the potential to be far worse had the Israeli’s not fought back.
Israel is a tiny country clinging to the edge of a continent, the idea that it is seeking dominance is so far fetched as to be in the same category as flat earthers.
Israel has every right to defend itself, Hamas has brought the horror upon their own people.
most of it is contested, how many babies were decapitated? how many women raped? how many israelis killed by apache helicopters? why was the concert moved at the last minute closer to the border? why was the idf stood down long enough for hamas to get over the border? what is the actual body count?
Do the numbers really matter? The death of one innocent child, man or woman, is one too many. This was calculated slaughter on an industrial scale, 1200 could have become 120,000 or every Jew, which is the stated aim of Hamas. Lets not forget, not all Israelis are Jews, there are many who are Arabs.
If the death of one is too many, why do you feel that 15000 dead Palestinians is not enough?
Where did you get the info about the concert being moved. It would make sense in that the Israeli Government were warned by the Egyptian intelligence service that something was up. Also Hamas ere observed training by the Boarder guards in the weeks prior to Oct 7, but I would like to know the source.
I simply could not disagree more with this comment. I think the oppodite isctrue in every respect
Couldn’t agree more with Jonno-2! Nail. Head. Compulsive. And well written.
Of course, this article would have to be trimmed for The S*n, Express and Metro readers, (Snappy bite-sized chunks. I’m working-class, I know my people), but Megan’s posts are always an accurate and informative good read!
As panto season approaches, might I suggest a possible tabloid heading for those rags.
‘Israel -It’s behind you! And EVERYTHING ELSE!’ (Probably).
Keep up the good work Megan and Canary.
Stay warm. Peace.
On course to be the worst Labour PM ever?
Anyone who praises Mrs Thatcher, is a good person in my book. Let us not forget she was the driving force that brought down the Berlin wall and the fall of communism. Not everything worked out well(Putin) but many in Eastern Europe hail Mrs T as their saviour-which she was.
God bless her sainted memory.
@Boismalet : “Anyone who praises Mrs Thatcher, is a good person in my book.”
Your book’s definition of a “good person” includes the South African apartheid regime, Chilean dictator and human rights violater Augusto Pinochet and her regular xmas guest Sir James Saville.
When she died, demented, there were street celebrations.
See : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnonhGdD4ig
and : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9KlIJfXQU
Time for a new political party. With Labour we only have a choice of Tory or Tory.
The Labour Friends of Israel equate anti-Zionism with ‘anti-semitism’. It us ludicrous, dangerous nonsense.
The Zionist state of Israel is the most truly anti-semitic thing on Earth: a cruel deception, and a lie from beginning to end.
First, ‘anti-semitism’ is itself a racist idea invented by the Nazis. ‘Semitic’ actually refers to a cultural, religious and linguistic identity. Palestinians are a semitic people too!
Second, anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim hatred are both assertions of ‘white’ (Anglo-Saxon Protestant) dominance. Both are deliberately stirred up by extreme right-wing elements to ‘other’ people and divide and rule them.
Third, the state of Israel was founded to get Jews out of countries they had lived in for hundreds of years. To succeed where the concentration camps had not, by persuading Jews to emigrate in search of safety. In reality the great majority would have been safer staying at home in Europe. Like early American settlers looking for a better life, they were used to violently seize land and drive out the natives. In the case of Israel, it allowed the fascists to build an anti-Islamic narrative too. We were encouraged to blame all Muslims for the actions of a few.
We were also told to associate all Jews with the crimes of Zionism. It encouraged hostility to Jewish people and more reason for them to emigrate to the ‘promised land’. And seeing ‘settler’ violence against Palestinians, we are encouraged to fear that immigrants here might do similar things to us.
Zionism is a shameful, manipulative con-trick played on Jews when they were at their most vulnerable and afraid. And on the rest of us. As in America, settlers were told they were promoting civilisation. It was their manifest destiny. In reality they were pawns in a colonialist game. Far from a safe haven, negotiated fairly with the Palestinian population, it was -and still is – an embattled US colony built -like the US itself – on racism and violence. – ‘Force majeure’, or as they call it in the US, ’eminent domain’.
The fertile crescent in the Middle East became an American resource with the blood of the locals. And the Israelis were then funded to fight it out with the ‘Arabs’. It was predestined for perpetual warfare and utter destruction.
Jews and Palestinians alike have been victims of extreme right wing America – including fascist so called ‘Christian Zionism’ that looks toward a time when the Jews return to Israel to be converted to Christianity or wiped out in the Apocalypse.
The Americans have failed to establish a permanent Jewish colony in Palestine, because -as with the native Americans- it is based on genocide and ethnic cleansing. The victims have been turned into perpetrators. It didn’t have to be this way. Many Jews are (and always were) horrified at what is done in their name.
I do not condemn Jews for the behaviour of the Israeli government but that government has no more right to self defence than Hamas, which is the elected political party that governs Gaza. And Palestinians facing genocide have far more need of self defence than the illegal settlers who form Netanyahu’s regime.
The only ‘side’ to be taken in the current nakba is that of our common humanity. A ‘safe haven’ for Jews simply cannot be established by ethnic cleansing and genocide. You can no more destroy Hamas, the political party that governs Gaza, than you could destroy the Conservative Party by bombing London. But of course that’s not really the point. The aim is to murder or drive out the entire population of Gaza and take it over. I’m told Gaza’a oil has already been sold by the Israelis to BP. Is that true?
Since Zionist Israel is built on violence and destruction, over generations, it can never be a safe haven for anyone. The only possible future is a single Palestinian state where people of all ethnic and religious identities can co-exist in equality, peace and justice.
That is going to have to start by giving full Israeli citizenship to all Palestinians, providing massive compensation to the Palestinians for the terrible suffering and loss they have experienced over generations, and begging their forgiveness.
Then perhaps Jews of good faith can negotiate a truly safe haven, free from American racism and geopolitical agendas.
The Canary is mad as a box of frogs.There is plenty wrong with Israel but its the only democracy in the region,the most multi racial and multi cultural country in the region,has the best record on womens rights ,LBGT rights in the region most of its citizens are the descendants of refugees.Three times despite all the odds it defeated combined Arab armies that were trying to destroy it.If Israel was destroyed as the Canary wished what would replace it?A free peaceful country where Arabs snd Jews live in harmony?You must be joking.After Hamas ,Hezbollah and co had finished slaughtering and expelling the Jews they would start fighting and slaughtering each other as Hamas did to Fatah when they gained power in Gaza.Luckily the Canarys fantasy is very unlikely to come true.By the way the largest proportion of Israels population are the descendants of the 1 million Jews who fled persecution and massacres in the rest of the ME and North Africa.Do they have a right of return?Do you think Iraq,Libya,Syria etc are going to welcome millions of Jews and return them the property that was confiscated from their ancestors?Three cheers for Starmer,I dont rate him that highly but he is a damn sight better than Corbyn.
It is a relief for me to read Megan’s article, a brilliantly written argument for what I have been feeling and thinking for years. I remember my mother’s (b. 1920) caution even as an older child – Britain is only a democratic country while it is safely on the Right side. The election of Corbyn was a great shock to the complacent ruling class and they pulled out all stops to get him thrown off the scene. Israel acts as a useful politically correct (for the Right side) watchdog ‘out there’ and its terrible/vile/fascistic bombing of Palestine can only go on because it appears to have its American and British mates backing it. I’m not sure though, if even they think (not humanitarianly, of course) Israel isn’t taking this a bit too far. I think Israel is now making sure of its future ownership of the rest of the land. It is in the process of complete colonisation. Where the poor Palestinians go, and what happens to them, Israel sneeringly, couldn’t care less. The only thing is that the world may not forget what Israel (its leadership), in the name of being Jewish, will have done to another ethnic group.