Blair Declares War on Corbyn: ‘Antisemitism’ Smear Campaign Will Intensify Before Election

Ever since the popular emergence of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in 2015, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been busy – diligently working in the background, organising various columns of opposition within the Labour Party and through other well-funded special interest groups, with a singular objective: to take down the Labour leader and force his party back to its previous right-of-centre position during 12 years of New Labour.

One of the main phalanxes for taking down Corbyn and his inner party allies has been a sophisticated “antisemitism” smear campaign, designed to weaken Corbyn’s leadership ability and ultimately split the Labour Party by using a contrived crisis to create artificial division within the party.  To help reinforce Blair’s ‘antisemitism’ bona fides, in June 2015 he was gifted the role of chairman of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation, said to be in charge of “tackling antisemitism” across the continent. This smear operation was coordinated out of the Israeli Embassy in London, and the blueprint for their operation was exposed in Al Jazeera’s 2017 documentary, The Lobby. To help with the task of bringing down Corbyn, Blair had the support Britain’s mainstream corporate media, including his old ally Rupert Murdoch and his UK paper, The Times. The Israeli Lobby could also count on the full support of the Tory government in helping to promulgate their libel campaign of “antisemitism in Labour’.

With the country’s General Election only 5 weeks away, Tony Blair has finally come out from behind the shadows to declare open warfare against Jeremy Corbyn, all but threatening to bludgeon the left-wing leader with the full force of the Lobby and the media. During a meeting earlier this week with the Board of Deputies of British Jews president’s dinner, Blair showed his true intentions, issuing what can only be described as a not-so-veiled threat to Corbyn:

“Let me be frank, there is going to be a complete battle in the Labour Party because what has happened over these past years — particularly over antisemitism — is absolutely killing the party.”

Blair went on to explain to the Jewish group how he intends to re-frame the issue of Israel and Palestine to the British electorate, in a way that’s more palatable to Israeli interests, insisting that there is “a need to explain Zionism and the way Israel was created and why it deserves support today .… Israeli democracy is a real democracy.”

Here Blair reveals the key objective of the entire ‘antisemitism in Labour’ smear campaign. Charges of ‘antisemitism’ against Corbyn and other Labour members like Chris Williamson, are based on the false premise that anyone who dares to support the Palestinian people and demand an end to Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories – will be framed as anti-Jewish and then defamed and libeled as a racist and an ‘antisemite.’

The Lobby took their defamation campaign up a level this week, by pushing a fraudulent idea that fearful British Jews are going to flee the country if Jeremy Corbyn wins the General Election and becomes Prime Minister. This latest phase the libel campaign was buttressed by the Jewish Chronicle which ran a completely over-the-top front page on Thursday, which read: “This front page is addressed not to our usual readers — but to those who would not normally read the Jewish Chronicle. In other words, to non-Jews. This is why:”

he paper then went on to claiming, “that nearly half (47 per cent) of the Jewish community said in that same poll that they would “seriously consider” emigrating if Mr Corbyn wins on December 12…”

Undoubtedly, this was a baseless claim, but it was indicative of how desperate Blair, Murdoch, the Tory elites and the Israeli Lobby are to head-off a Corbyn run at Downing Street.

To help with the smear campaign, The Lobby found a willing accomplice in the Liberal Democrat Party and its leader divisive leader Jo Swinson, who openly applauded the Jewish Chronicles outlandish fear claims:

Incredibly powerful message and appalling that any community in our country has been forced to feel like this. https://t.co/8LeQJRESnP

— Jo Swinson (@joswinson) November 7, 2019

It is yet unclear exactly how far Blair will go in quest to slander the Labour leader. It would not be at all surprising if Blair took to the road over the next month and traveled to the European continent and the US, just as he did this past summer, touring Israel in an effort to convince Israeli crowds that Corbyn was indeed an antisemite.

Regardless of the election outcome in December, history will have noted the marked demise of intellectual and moral standards in British politics – an effort which has been spearheaded by one of Britain’s most reviled political figures ever – and a man who was caught red-handed, lying to the electorate in order to take the country into an illegal war in Iraq.

As Alexei Sayle also said: “The search for antisemitism in the Labour Party is the ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ of our age” — absolutely true. https://t.co/tdcS7Ldq5j

— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) February 22, 2019

Longtime Labour supporter and famous British comedian, Alexei Sayle, put it best when he said, “The search for antisemitism in the Labour Party is the ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ of our age.” Indeed, no actual evidence could be found in either case.

As with Iraq, Blair’s latest campaign of deception will not end well either.

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