‘Killing Corbynism’ shows how Corbyn’s Palestine support ‘made the left a target’

Killing Corbynism, by Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, examines an issue largely absent from mainstream discussion of the Corbyn years. Namely, the role of the State of Israel and its lobby in the campaign to undermine supporters of Palestine and Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the opposition.

The book draws on extensive research. It demonstrates that a campaign against the left was developed in Jerusalem and exported to the UK when Corbyn was elected Labour leader.

For more than four years, a smear campaign discredited and demeaned Corbyn and his supporters. The campaign destabilised a political project that had given hope to millions. This paved the way for a lack of mainstream UK political opposition to Israel’s actions in Gaza and West Asia more widely.

Killing Corbynism provides both a compelling narrative and a meticulous repository of evidence, much of which has since been deleted. It goes to the heart of the UK Establishment, into both houses of parliament, the charitable sector, the media and the honours system.

Gordon-Nesbitt’s anti-racist analysis examines the Islamophobia, anti-Arab and anti-GRT racism, and even antisemitism, inherent within the campaign against Corbynism.

Published by Incarnadine, Killing Corbynism will be available in hardback, paperback and eBook editions from 24 April 2026.

Praise for ‘Killing Corbynism’

Ghada Karmi:

A welcome exposé of the pro-Israel dirty tricks campaign used to bring down Jeremy Corbyn. ‘Killing Corbynism’ is an informed, well-researched guide to the workings of a political network of malign influence that should alarm us all.

Leah Levane

In 2017 Jewish Voice for Labour was set up to try to counter the false allegations of anti-Semitism levelled against Jeremy Corbyn and all of us who supported his ideas.

One of our ongoing tasks has been to separate Judaism and Zionism and to emphasise that the majority of Zionists are not Jewish and that a significant – and growing – proportion of Jews are non- or anti-Zionist.

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt’s clarity on this is all-too rare. She also recognises, as we do, that using anti-Semitism to mean criticism of the Israeli State or Zionism as an ideology is dangerous, not least for Jews in the face of very real anti-Jewish hatred.

That this tactic is still being used to attack – and suppress the freedoms of – hundreds of millions across the world who support the rights of the Palestinian people is another reason this book is so important.

Rebecca’s meticulous research reveals the methodology used by those who want to keep our society working in the interests of the few and helps give us the tools we need going forwards.

Ken Loach:

This book must be taken seriously as an analysis of how the claims of anti-Semitism in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party got such a grip on the political discourse.

So many people were wrongly accused, so many accusations were exposed as unfounded, so many statements misquoted yet allowed to stand uncorrected and so many Jewish Labour members suspended or expelled for racism against Jews.

It was a witch-hunt, without question. Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt’s rigorous analysis is compulsory reading for anyone who wants to understand what actually happened to remove Jeremy Corbyn and the politics he represented from the Labour Party.

It has been called a ‘political assassination’. This book should ensure that it never happens again.

Moshé Machover:

The true nature of the Zionist project of colonisation – employing apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people – is increasingly grasped by the public. Support of Palestinian rights has become the defining position of present-day progressive opinion.

The forces of reaction have been trying hard to stem the tide by deploying fabricated accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’. This book is a forensic case study of one of the major campaigns against the left, using this poisoned weapon.

Michael Mansfield KC:

This courageous research exposes the extent of pernicious anti-democratic forces which have been spreading a toxic and false narrative for many years.

Ilan Pappé:

In a world of low-calibre self-centred politicians, focused on their career as an occupation and not a vocation, Jeremy Corbyn shone as the absolute antidote to what is wrong with politics in our time.

The smear campaign against him, based on the false allegation of anti-Semitism, should not have surprised anyone. His potential success would have led to politics that would challenge greedy capitalist stakeholders, who benefit from a world scorched by fires of war and global warming.

His success could have also led Europe for the first time to play a constructive role in protecting the Palestinians from further colonisation and dispossession.

‘Killing Corbynism’ provides the most detailed, authoritative analysis of how a pro-Israeli lobby played a crucial role in trying to topple Britain’s most honest living politician of our time.

This essential book will help us to be better prepared in the future as this could happen again to the few individuals who entered politics in order to make the world, including in Palestine, a better place through moral clarity and ethical strategy.

Yanis Varoufakis:

The brilliant tactics with which the Zionist lobby orchestrated Jeremy Corbyn’s character assassination is a master class in how vacuous accusations of anti-Semitism can be weaponised to safeguard capital’s hegemony.

A book that must be read by anyone interested in restoring the possibility of democracy in Britain and beyond.

Asa Winstanley:

Fascinating. A worthy successor to my book ‘Weaponising Anti-Semitism’, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt’s ‘Killing Corbynism’ contains many essential details of this story which I’d not known.

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