A Labour Purge of Anti-Semites?!?

First, you may wish to sit down before reading this….

Good.  For two aspects of this post may floor you.  First, I am compelled to now praise the Labour Party.

Yes, I know.  Shocking.  But don’t stand up yet… Second, the Labour Party may be purging its anti-semites.

Already, the Labour Party has suspended (Still sitting?) past Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.  And other Corbynistas are in danger as well, including (Please God!) Dianne Abbott.

I have to praise the courage of Labour leader Keir Starmer.  At the same time, I wonder if Labour will now split into a semi-sane, non-Communist Party and a silly Left Islamonazi Party.

Now if only the U. S. Democrat Party would purge its anti-semites.

Do Not Vote Labour … Say 15 Labour Former MPs UPDATED

Those who follow me, especially my Twitter feed, know I can be tough on the Labour Party.  But I have to admit I am still thankful that Gordon Brown’s government banned indoor smoking in 2007.  That may have saved my health as I studied at Oxford that same year.

But Labour under Jeremy Corbyn has become so extreme and toxic that even many Labour people will be voting against them tomorrow. Especially notable is that fifteen Labour former MPs are publicly urging people not to vote for Labour this time.

I particularly appreciate that they cite Corbyn/Labour anti-semitism as one big reason for their stand:

Despite what Jeremy Corbyn says about anti-semitism, we need to accept that most Jewish people have well founded fears about what Labour has become.  British Jews deserve our support.

I will add that, unless one’s Labour candidate is an exceptionally principled person who has strongly and without equivocation opposed anti-semitism through the years, a vote for Labour is indefensible, especially for Christians. 

Yes, I said it.  Although I have strong political convictions, I am one to allow a lot of leeway for personal political decisions.  But the rampant anti-semitism of today’s Labour Party puts it beyond what is acceptable.  Even many past Labour voters and officials are seeing that.

UPDATE:
On the last night before the election, Labour anti-semitism was on open display, complete with that lovely genocidal chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and more. Watch for yourself.

Bernie Sanders' Anti-Semite

In the UK, it is hard to miss that Jeremy Corbyn and his Labour Party have a serious problem with anti-semitism.  He and the Corbynistas are that blatant at times about their Jew-hate plus the UK has a politically diverse print news media, remarkably so. Yes, there are UK newspapers willing to do actual journalism on the sins of the Left.

The US “news” media lacks such political diversity.  That is one reason it is easy to miss that Democrats also have a problem with anti-semitism.  For example, I bet most of you good readers, though unusually well informed, did not know that Bernie Sanders has added to his campaign as a surrogate the notorious anti-semite Linda Sarsour.  But now you do.

You’re welcome.

Now, yes, Sanders is technically an independent Socialist, but that’s pretty much the same as a Democrat nowadays, and he is again running for President as a Democrat.  I should also say that not all Leftists and Democrats are okay with anti-semitism.  To their credit, some left the Women’s March due to anti-semitism from Sarsour and others.

But the Democrat Party is still the Party of Linda Sarsour, Ilhan Omar and their ilk.

And, not so by the way, I still have heard just about nothing about the Democrat’s anti-semitism problem from the woke church crowd, from the AND Campaign, from the Anglican Multi-Ethnic Network (AMEN), etc.

The AND Campaign tells us, “Christians can hold both parties accountable.” But when it comes to Democrat Anti-Semitism, AND and most other woke churchers are not among said Christians.

NOTE: AMEN has a new director now, the Rev. Canon Lawrence McElrath.  May his leadership be more balanced and edifying than Esau McCaulley’s was.

Corbyn Still One of the Comrades of Evo Morales

I am among those thankful that the Leftist supposed President of Bolivia Evo Morales resigned under pressure after a fraudulent re-election. But look who is not thankful: the dictators of Cuba and Venezuela . . . and Jeremy Corbyn.

The Glorious Leader of the Labour Party tweeted:

To see [Evo Morales] who, along with a powerful movement, has brought so much social progress forced from office by the military is appalling. I condemn this coup against the Bolivian people and stand with them for democracy, social justice and independence. #ElMundoConEvo

Never mind Morales’ human rights abuses or his election stealing.

By the way, I wonder what Pope Francis thinks of Morales’ resignation.  Will the LibPope miss him?  After all they’ve met at least six times, including as recently as last year when Francis surely knew the nature of the Morales regime.  And remember Morales gave Francis that lovely Communist cross. So maybe Francis will invite his buddy to move into the Vatican where he will be right at home with any number of Leftist abusers.

Corbyn, Communism, and Double Standards

Imagine if Donald Trump, David Cameron, or Nigel Farage were to speak at a Fascist event in which portraits of Adolf Hitler were lovingly marched through the streets.  Imagine the outrage.

Let’s flip it – and we don’t have to imagine.  British Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke at a May Day event in which portraits of Stalin were lovingly marched through the streets.

No, there was not much outrage.

This is part of the double standard in the West.  If anyone has any verifiable background of pro-Hitler sympathies, he is rightly drummed out of public life (if he isn’t Muslim, that is).  But any number of people with radical Left sympathies get a free pass.  And that when the radical Left is a far bigger threat to Western freedom than the fascist Right and has been for decades.

But if someone seeks to expose radical Left backgrounds, he is denounced as a McCarthyite or a bigot or the like.  This while those who hunt very old and inactive Nazis are lionized.  And, yes, Nazi hunters deserve praise for helping bring genocidal criminals to justice.  But where is the zeal in going after the criminals of the Mao, Pol Pot, or any number of murderous Communist regimes?

As horrific as the Hitler regime was, Communists, Socialists if you will, have killed many more people and done more harm than the Nazis ever did.

It is past time we acted like it and treated those aligned with the radical Left with the same contempt and ostracism we do those aligned with Nazis and neo-Nazis.

About Support of Jeremy Corbyn

Due to pressing ministry duties, I cannot go into the subject in detail.  But the election of Jeremy Corbyn as UK Labour leader compels me to put my foot down.  Support of him is not morally defensible.  And, to put it as nicely as I can, the overwhelming election of him by Labourites does not speak well of them at all.

He is a vile man in so many ways, including his history of anti-Semitism and his past support for IRA and Muslim terrorists.  His appointment to Shadow Chancellor just adds to his enormities. The appointee, MP John McDonnell, once said he would like to “go back to the 1980s and assassinate Thatcher.”  What a lovely man.

And, no, although working within Labour to oust Corbyn may be morally defensible for a Christian, support for him most emphatically is not, Bishop Pete Broadbent’s support for him not withstanding.

One wonders how Church of England authorities would respond to a bishop supporting an equally vile politician of the Right.  Oh, I think we already know.

Really, I was tempted to re-run a slightly edited version of my August post questioning Christian support for today’s U.S. Democrat Party because so many of the same principles apply here.  No political party is undeserving of robust criticism (And I am hardly a supporter of establishment Republicans or of Cameronite Tories, and this post is not to be so taken.).  But there is a point beyond which arguments of moral equivalence or indifference utterly fail as such arguments often do. And arguments to Christian freedom in various spheres, which I hold dear, also have limits.  And Labour has lurched far, far beyond said limits with the election of such an evil man.

Trust me I could say more.  And I am confident Mr. Corbyn will give us all much on which to converse.

By the way, Bernie Sanders is just “delighted” with Corbyn’s election as Labour leader.