Killing Corbynism
Following decades of disenfranchisement, Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party signalled hope – that need would triumph over greed, that the planet might not burn, that politics would be kinder. His programme for government promised to be transformative. He also supported Palestine. He had to be stopped.
BY REBECCA GORDON-NESBITT
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Synopsis
Between 2015 and 2019, the Labour leadership was subject to accusations that anti-Semitism was endemic in the party, culminating in the allegation that Corbyn himself was Judeophobic. In the absence of factual evidence, his persecutors resorted to subjective claims of prejudice, demanded a purge of pro-Palestine socialists, dismissed logical objections and repeated lies until they took on the appearance of truth. The effect was cumulative, with each new story more damaging than the last until the public believed that a lifelong anti-racist had enabled anti-Jewish racism to flourish.
Killing Corbynism is an anatomy of a black op. In chronological detail, this groundbreaking book investigates the State of Israel’s role in Labour’s ‘anti-Semitism crisis’. Delving into history, it considers how strategies and tactics developed in Jerusalem stood ready to deflect any challenge to the state’s continued existence and expansion. The target in this case was not just a man but also the movement he inspired. This shameful story implicates parliamentarians, lobbyists, charities, bureaucrats and journalists in the intervention of a foreign state in UK democracy – a state founded on colonisation and genocide.
Author
Dr Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt analyses and devises policy and strategy. She has worked within Parliament and with mayoral authorities, universities and the National Health Service. She has published a book on the cultural policy of the Cuban Revolution and several influential reports. Her investigative work has exposed some of the shortcomings of capitalism. Standing as a candidate in the 2019 general election, Rebecca experienced at first hand how false accusations of anti-Semitism were mobilised. That experience motivated her to spend five years researching and writing this book.
Endorsements
Read this book to learn how my support of Palestine made the left a target.
JEREMY CORBYN
The brilliant tactics with which the Zionist lobby orchestrated Jeremy Corbyn’s character assassination is a master class in how vacuous accusations of anti-Semitism can be weaponised to safeguard capital’s hegemony. A book that must be read by anyone interested in restoring the possibility of democracy in Britain and beyond.
Yanis Varoufakis
A welcome exposé of the pro-Israel dirty tricks campaign used to bring down Jeremy Corbyn. Killing Corbynism is an informed, well-researched guide to the workings of a political network of malign influence that should alarm us all.
Ghada Karmi
In 2017 Jewish Voice for Labour was set up to try to counter the false allegations of anti-Semitism levelled against Jeremy Corbyn and all of us who supported his ideas. One of our ongoing tasks has been to separate Judaism and Zionism and to emphasise that the majority of Zionists are not Jewish and that a significant – and growing – proportion of Jews are non- or anti-Zionist. Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt’s clarity on this is all-too rare. She also recognises, as we do, that using anti-Semitism to mean criticism of the Israeli State or Zionism as an ideology is dangerous, not least for Jews in the face of very real anti-Jewish hatred. That this tactic is still being used to attack – and suppress the freedoms of – hundreds of millions across the world who support the rights of the Palestinian people is another reason this book is so important. Rebecca’s meticulous research reveals the methodology used by those who want to keep our society working in the interests of the few and helps give us the tools we need going forwards.
Leah Levane
Fascinating. A worthy successor to my book Weaponising Anti-Semitism, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt’s Killing Corbynism contains many essential details of this story which I’d not known.
Asa Winstanley
This book must be taken seriously as an analysis of how the claims of anti-Semitism in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party got such a grip on the political discourse. So many people were wrongly accused, so many accusations were exposed as unfounded, so many statements misquoted yet allowed to stand uncorrected and so many Jewish Labour members suspended or expelled for racism against Jews. It was a witch-hunt, without question. Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt’s rigorous analysis is compulsory reading for anyone who wants to understand what actually happened to remove Jeremy Corbyn and the politics he represented from the Labour Party. It has been called a ‘political assassination’.
Ken Loach
The true nature of the Zionist project of colonisation – employing apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people – is increasingly grasped by the public. Support of Palestinian rights has become the defining position of present-day progressive opinion.
The forces of reaction have been trying hard to stem the tide by deploying fabricated accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’. This book is a forensic case study of one of the major campaigns against the left, using this poisoned weapon.
Moshé Machover
This courageous research exposes the extent of pernicious anti-democratic forces which have been spreading a toxic and false narrative for many years.
Michael Mansfield
In a world of low-calibre self-centred politicians, focused on their career as an occupation and not a vocation, Jeremy Corbyn shone as the absolute antidote to what is wrong with politics in our time.
The smear campaign against him, based on the false allegation of anti-Semitism, should not have surprised anyone. His potential success would have led to politics that would challenge greedy capitalist stakeholders, who benefit from a world scorched by fires of war and global warming. His success could have also led Europe for the first time to play a constructive role in protecting the Palestinians from further colonisation and dispossession.
Killing Corbynism provides the most detailed, authoritative analysis of how a pro-Israeli lobby played a crucial role in trying to topple Britain’s most honest living politician of our time.
This essential book will help us to be better prepared in the future as this could happen again to the few individuals who entered politics in order to make the world, including in Palestine, a better place through moral clarity and ethical strategy.