Labour Representation Committee go full Strasserite

News of yet another Labour party member being suspended for anti-Semitism this morning. The Times (£) reports:

Harry Virco, a candidate in next month’s local elections for Fylde borough council in Lancashire, wrote on Twitter last year: “Has Israel & the Jewish people learned nothing from their persecution under Hitler? Yes they have! They now know how to persecute other people & especially children.”

In January he wrote: “Israel is turning itself into a Neo-natzi state.” In June 2017 he shared an article with the comment: “Disgusting pair Murdoch/Rothschild Israel Exposed Secretly Paying Syrian ‘Rebels’ to Protect Rothschild Murdoch Oil”. The Rothschild family regularly feature in antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Labour has also re-instead a really nasty individual who besides posting similar material (and worse) a certain Pam Bromley went even further in her deranged outlook.

"Ms Bromley also claimed that the Manchester Arena terror attacks were orchestrated by Theresa May as a "handy excuse to squash Jeremy Corbyn’s growing support." (www.lancs.live)

Of course none of this seems to be newsworthy these days as there are thousands of such reports from the ranks of Corbyn's "new, kinder, gentler" Labour party (no laughing at the back), but the recent decision of the Jewish Labour Movement to pass a motion of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn has made the Labour Representation Committee reach for it's brown shirts...

....it is not at all clear who the JLM will actually work for in elections. Their statement makes it clear that they want the Tories to win and carry on like a wrecking ball as they have been doing.

The JLM is a small organisation. It is believed to have a few hundred members, a tiny percentage of Labour’s total membership of half a million. But they can do harm far beyond their numbers. Their resolution is intended to feed the allegations of ‘institutional antisemitism’ against Labour, and as such has been eagerly gobbled up by the Tory press.

The author, one Mick Brookes uses the extreme website run by one Asa Winstanley to make a really neo-fascist conspiracy theory:

According to the Electronic Intifada the JLM was revived in 2015 specifically to combat Jeremy Corbyn, a longstanding supporter of the Palestinian cause. The article points the finger at Israeli intelligence in helping to refound the dormant JLM, an explanation confirmed by the Al Jazeera‘s documentary The Lobby. It is not antisemitism in Britain, but opposition to policies carried out by the state of Israel that they see as the enemy. In response Asa Winstanley, the author of the article, has been suspended from the Labour Party.

Winstanley (who no one seemed to know was a member until recently has been suspended for anti-Semitism. He is a very unpleasant individual and the website he runs is virtually genocidal toward Israel. Not really an individual who belongs anywhere in rational politics. the BNP was obviously too small for him to spread his hate.

The LRC contains in it's leadership one John McDonnell who has admitted there is an anti-Semitism problem and has continually promised to "deal with it". Not that the party has. It's just lip service.

Meanwhile his mate Mick Brooks (remember that name for the future) conjures up Nazi imagery with his comment:

The JLM is an affiliated organisation to the Labour Party. As such it can and does send delegates to local Parties. Yet it is campaigning to make a Labour government impossible! They are stabbing us in the back. That is insupportable. The JLM must be disaffiliated from Labour as soon as possible.

Where have I heard that expression before.... answers on a postcard to the NSAP LRC.