Starmer banishing final traces of Corbynism (aka internationalist socialism)

Rebecca Long Bailey has been sacked from Labour's front bench, for sharing an article by actress Maxine Peake, in which Peake claimed that the US cops who killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck, learnt that brutal technique from Israeli authorities.

We don’t know that US cops learnt that technique from the apartheid regime in Israel (it does definitely happen there), but we do know for certain that US law enforcement officials often go to Israel for training, and that some US police departments are now banning Israeli military influence.

Maxine Peake’s specific allegation was unfounded, but it was based on a truth re collusion in police training between two racist regimes. I don't think it was unreasonable for Long Bailey to have assumed that what Peake stated was factual.

The response from Keir Starmer (and obviously the media), in firing and condemning Long Bailey, is surely as over-reaction. (Where is the condemnation of Labour frontbencher, Rachel Reeves, who likes to openly praise the Nazi-supporting 1930s MP,  Nancy Astor?).

Derangement is nothing new, of course. An anti-racist activist and movement have been smeared as antisemitic for 5 years! Enabling the rise of actual racist, Boris Johnson.

The establishment’s weaponisation of the minor problem of antisemitism on the left, to create a new kind of McCarthyism and destroy the internationalist left and Palestinian solidarity, worked a treat. And Sir Keir Starmer is unsurprisingly proving himself a willing servant of that establishment.

Imagine if the same level of vitriol directed at anti-racists for making occasional mistakes in their condemnation of racism, was instead directed at the racist/imperialist western establishments that are destroying the planet, scapegoating and bombing Muslims, etc.

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More thoughts:

Is it antisemitic to bring up the fact that Israel and the US have colluded in policing techniques, after an incident of police brutality in the US? I can see why some think so, but I guess it only is if you think the brutal apartheid regime in Israel represents Jewish people? Which is antisemitic in itself, no?

I'm sure some on the far-right are, but most critics of Israel are not motivated by antisemitism. They're motivated by a desire for justice, and given that Israel is an ongoing settler-colonialist project, it's probably to be expected that many will focus on it, even when they probably shouldn't.