The funny thing is, Corbyn literally is the only hope for bringing this sort of practice to an end. He’s the first leader of a party in over 30 years that sits in the middle of that Venn diagram.
a) Able to get elected
b) Gives an actual fuck about international law, and by extension, the Palestinians.
I know for a fact that the Israel Lobby has been going after Corbyn and his supporters. In Liverpool Riverside, they actually used Stasi like informant tactics to try to get some dirt, any dirt on the members that were there. I know some of the people involved. I’ve campaigned with Elizabeth Hayden. What they tried and failed to do was fucking disgusting.
I am, however, genuinely not as depressed about it as you, for these reasons.
First, I know how the Labour Party reacts to general election victories internally. When Blair got in, virtually all objections were dropped and the leadership got to run its program, which unfortunately involved stuffing places like Liverpool with pro-Israel politicians, a particular insult given the solidarity that city expresses for the downtrodden. Corbyn will be able to do what he wants when he wins. Victory is near everything. Look at how much the party has changed just because he came a close second.
I’m certain that your fears are justified if the current crop continue to run things. 80% of the Conservative Parliamentary Party are members of CFI. It is massively penetrated, and given May’s weakness in every fucking other area of anything ever, I would be entirely unsurprised if she was taking orders from Bibi, even this week. LFI membership is falling, and especially amongst the young, a revelation from the Israeli Embassy itself in The Lobby.
Finally, you’re not alone in thinking there’s something dodgier than Neo at the denouement of The Matrix in the complete and total lack of criticism, something dodgy about Laura K deleting tweets, and something dodgy about the whole fucking arrangement. The truth is that successive governments have been penetrated and to various degrees, controlled, by agents of a foreign country.
That fat cunt Pickles was on the news because he’d tweeted something about no-one batting an eyelid if this had been any other country. That fat cunt can fuck off. The press will run hit pieces on Corbyn just because he said something nice about Venezuela once. The press are presently running hit pieces on Russia because they claim, without evidence, that Russia influenced the US elections. We repeatedly catch Israel meddling in our democracy and we do nothing.
Because anti-semitism, especially under the disgraceful IHRA definition which Theresa May’s government has adopted.