Labour had no choice but to suspend Corbyn
Hopefully, the end of Corbyn’s career in Labour politics will allow the party to turn a new page on anti-Semitism.
Photograph by Peter Tutykhin.
It is depressing that, upon the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party, the hard left-wing conspiracy theorists got to work in declaring it outrageous that the party suspended someone who they see as their messiah. It is depressing because the hard left seem to use Corbyn’s past support for anti-apartheid movements in South Africa as an excuse for the period of institutional racism he oversaw as leader of the Labour Party.
Chris Williamson, the former MP for Derby North who was suspended over anti-Semitism himself, claimed that this was a politically motivated attack intended to silence free speech on Israel. Quite galling given that the Equality and Human Rights Commission is a neutral body that investigated the Labour Party to uncover what has been going on since Corbyn became leader in 2015. To say this was a ‘politically motivated attack’ is an outrageous accusation with no basis in reality.
It is worth remembering the specific reason for Corbyn being suspended yesterday and why it will most certainly lead to a full expulsion once the independent body has investigated him themselves. Firstly, the suspension came from Labour’s General Secretary, David Evans, and not from Sir Keir Starmer, which is entirely proper as the EHRC recommended that any decision on suspension should not come from the leader’s office. This shoots the fox being proposed online conspiracy theorists about how this was always premeditated attack on Corbyn from a vengeful new leadership.
Secondly, the suspension resulted from Corbyn contradiction of the EHRC report, claiming that antisemitism cases in the party were being exaggerated by the media and political opponents in order to stop him from becoming Prime Minister. A ‘woe is me’ narrative is similar to his brother’s fears over 5G being a tool of the Chinese state to mind control people through additives in vaccines. The EHRC report deliberately said that the extent of antisemitism cases in Labour should not be dismissed as exaggerated as it belittles all the pain Jewish activists within the party and the wider Jewish community have felt under the Corbyn leadership.
Trouble lies ahead for Corbyn in the investigation concerning his own relationship with anti-Semitism, which will most likely conclude in his expulsion from the party. From laying a wreath for one of the Munich Olympic terrorists to giving support for an anti-Semitic mural on Facebook, the end is nigh for Corbyn’s career in Labour.
Hopefully, the expulsion of Corbyn along with implementing the findings of the report will allow the party to root out anti-Semitism in the party once and for all, so never again will ‘Labour’ and the ‘anti-Semitism’ be associated with one another again.
