Jeremy Corbyn to run as independent candidate in UK general election ( www.middleeasteye.net ) Englisch

Mrkawfee , vor einem Monat

Best of luck to him. The Zionist orchestrated smear campaign, backed by the red Tories, was a disgrace and a chilling sign of how far the Israel lobby has ensconced itself into UK politics.

We need to push back against the AIPAC-isation of our democracy.

Squeak , vor einem Monat

What’s the point? He won’t win by any stretch of the imagination, and the majority of votes he does get will be taken from the pool of voters who would ordinarily vote labour. All this does is benefit the tories. He’d be far better supporting Starmer, even if he doesn’t really.

Risk , vor einem Monat

Was he not very popular in his constituency though?

Diplomjodler3 , vor einem Monat

People like that are just in for their own personal aggrandisement. He'd rather burn down everything than admit he was wrong.

tal , vor einem Monat

I guess he could be trying to intentionally play a spoiler role. Like, he'd have to want Labour policy changes, believe that Labour adopting those changes wouldn't make Labour lose in the general election, and believe that he could split off enough votes to cause Labour to lose so that it has to give him those concessions if it wants him not to run.

Linkerbaan OP , vor einem Monat

Corbyn doesn't support Genocide and Starmer is practically a Tory that did a coup in Labour.

florge , vor einem Monat

Because compromise is what got us in this mess in the first place.

Womble , vor einem Monat

I dont think thats a relevant concern in Islington North. The Labour vote at the last election was 3 times all other parties combined and has been Labour (or a Labour spin off mp) since 1937, this is going to be a straight up 2 way fight between Corbyn and whoever Labour put up against him.

Linkerbaan OP , vor einem Monat

For those out of the loop, Corbyn spoke out against israel which is a big no-no

anlumo , vor einem Monat

IIRC the complaint was that he wasn’t harsh enough on his colleagues who said some things that could be interpreted as anti-semitic.

Linkerbaan OP , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

He was very obviously thrown out by israel

Anti-Semitism was generally not regarded as a big problem in the Labour Party before Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in September 2015.

Mr Corbyn and his allies on the left had spent decades campaigning for Palestinian statehood, in contrast with the more nuanced position taken by many of his predecessors.

Under his leadership, there was an influx of new members, many of whom were vocal critics of Israel and who believed the UK, along with the US, should be tougher towards Israel, especially regarding its policies towards the Palestinians and its building of settlements in the occupied territories.

Sir Keir sacked his shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey in June 2020, saying she had shared an article containing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

Mrs Long-Bailey had retweeted an interview with actor and Labour supporter Maxine Peake, later saying she had not meant to endorse all aspects of the article.

In the article, Ms Peake discussed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, saying: "The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd's neck, that was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services."

You can see where this is going. Also the claim from Ms Peake is factually correct.

Amnesty Interntional - With Whom are Many U.S. Police Departments Training? With a Chronic Human Rights Violator – Israel

Risk , vor einem Monat

Corbyn was absolutely shit smeared by the press; if you get people to look at Corbyn's Labour policies in isolation, I reckon you'd be hard pressed to find someone that disliked them.

I wonder why privately held media would do this...

Devi , vor einem Monat

There was a large campaign at the time to suggest anti-zionist was the same as anti-semetic.