by
Jonathan Cook
Part
3 - Guilt by association
Once the
mud stuck through repetition, a vocal group of Labour MPs began
denouncing the party for being “institutionally anti-semitic”,
“endemically anti-semitic” and a “cesspit of anti-semitism”.
The slurs continued relentlessly, even as statistics proved the
accusation to be groundless. The figures show that anti-semitism
exists only in the margins of the party, as racism does in all walks
of life.
Meanwhile,
the smears overshadowed the very provable fact that anti-semitism and
other forms of racism are rearing their head dangerously on the
political right.
But the
witchfinders were never interested in the political reality. They
wanted a never-ending war – a policy of “zero tolerance” – to
root out an evil in their midst, a supposed “hard left” given
succour by Corbyn and his acolytes.
This is
the context for understanding Williamson’s “crime”.
Despite
the best efforts of our modern witchfinder generals to prove
otherwise, Williamson has not been shown to have expressed hatred
towards Jews, or even to have made a comment that could be
interpreted as anti-semitic.
One of
the most experienced of the witchfinders, Guardian columnist
Jonathan Freedland, indulged familiar McCarthyite tactics this week
in trying to prove Williamson’s anti-semitism by association. The
MP was what Freedland termed a “Jew baiter” because he has
associated with people whom the witchfinders decree to be
anti-semites.
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