BRITISH LABOUR PARTY DITSHES TUTU’S POLICIES & SWAPS ZIONISM FOR ANOTHER IDEOLOGY
March 10, 2024The British Labor Party is currently being advised by Lord Peter Mandelson, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, who appears on ten occasions in Ghislaine Maxwell’s Little Black book, someone who phoned Jeffrey Epstein when he was in jail on child abuse convictions, says British politician, Andrew Feinstein.
”What does that say about the morality of a party that today is suspending and expelling people who share the vision and the specific political views of Archbishop Desmond Tutu?”
Feinstein who is standing against Keir Starmer at the next election provides an important persective on the current state of British politics and inparticular how far the Labour Party has shifted in its views and policies on apartheid, racisim and its support of the Israeli regime.
Very important viewpoint.
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Andrew Feinstein: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, because of his views on Israel, would be expelled from Keir Starmer’s Labor Party. This is the same Labor Party whose leadership is currently being advised by Lord Peter Mandelson, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, who appears on ten occasions in Ghislaine Maxwell’s Little Black book, someone who phoned Jeffrey Epstein when he was in jail on child abuse convictions. What does it say about our politics, our public life, and crucially, our media that Jeremy Corbyn was criticized more for the way in which he pronounced Jeffrey Epstein’s name than scrutiny is being given to the fact that Keir Starmer’s leadership is being advised by one of Jeff Epstein’s mates. What does that say about the morality of a party that today is suspending and expelling people who share the vision and the specific political views of Archbishop Desmond Tutu? Desmond Tutu was the most courageous campaigner against human rights abuses around the world. I was privileged to know him personally because I’d come into contact with him during the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. But even more importantly, when I was an ANC (African National Congress) member of parliament and was trying to investigate millions of dollars worth of corruption in a hugely corrupt arms deal that was facilitated primarily by Tony Blair and BAE Systems. Then Tutu called me to his home to give his support. Desmond Tutu campaigned against apartheid in South Africa, and he campaigned against human rights abuses everywhere in the world, including in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. When he visited Israel, he was shocked and remarked that he felt that apartheid in Israel was, if anything, worse than it had been in South Africa.
Unknown 1: You said that what you saw in Israel, something that was quite akin to the situation in South Africa.
Desmond Tutu: Where in many instances is worse.
Andrew Feinstein: He was also deeply frustrated by the fact that the Israeli state supported the apartheid South African regime and helped it become a nuclear power. And he would often say both privately and publicly, that he never understood how a state such as Israel could cooperate with and arm the apartheid state in South Africa that was run by Nazi sympathizers, where a lot of the apartheid legislation was mimicked from the Nazi legislation between 1933 and 1938, Tutu would often speak about the need to liberate not just those oppressed, but the oppressor as well. He saw how white South Africans became bitter and hateful people as a consequence of the racism that dominated their daily lives, the dehumanizing of the other. That is such a central component of any system of oppression. And when he visited Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, he saw the same thing amongst many Israelis hatred of the other, who they had dehumanized a shrinking of their own existence because they defined that existence in relation to those they subjugated and oppressed.
Desmond Tutu: Part of my own concern for what is happening there is in fact not what is happening to the Palestinians, but it is what the Israelis are doing to themselves. I mean, when you go to those checkpoints, and you see these young soldiers behaving abominably badly. They are not aware that when you carry out dehumanizing policies, whether you like it or not, those policies dehumanize the perpetrator.
Andrew Feinstein: He continued his search for a solution to the Palestinian issue throughout his life and continued steadfastly to call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, just as he had against apartheid South Africa. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fulsome in his praise of Archbishop Desmond Tutu on his passing, despite the reality that Boris Johnson’s government is in the process of trying to ban support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which Desmond Tutu clearly stated was absolutely crucial in bringing about an end to apartheid in South Africa and is absolutely crucial in fighting against apartheid in Israel and the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Desmond Tutu campaigned indefatigably against press censorship, freedom of speech, freedom of the media. It is something that in certain uncomfortable topics today, like Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. More and more, our media are self-censoring. Our political parties are censoring their members what they can and cannot say and believe on these topics. What Desmond Tutu taught us is that we must always listen to each other. We must always hear each other, regardless of how uncomfortable it is in our world of social media. We don’t listen, We don’t hear. We abuse by instinct without thought. Many of those who bandy about the word anti-Semite aren’t doing so because they care about actual antisemitism or racism. They’re using it as a weapon to attack those who are critical of Israel.
They’re trying to boil down Judaism to be equivalent to the state of Israel. That is in itself an anti-Semitic construct. They are doing it in such a way that effectively renders the term anti-Semitic meaningless.
Unknown 2: The world is mourning Bishop Tutu, who just died the other day. Can I remind the world that although he did some good things, a lot of good things in apartheid, the man was a rampant anti- Semite and bigot.
Andrew Feinstein: It is the same slur of anti-Semitism that was used against Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom, that was used against Bernie Sanders in the United States, and that is still being used supposedly in the name of fighting anti-Semitism. So in today’s Labor Party, for instance, a Jewish member of the Labor Party is five times more likely to be investigated, suspended or expelled by the Labor Party for antisemitism than anyone else in the party. Keir Starmer, leader of the Labor Party, eulogized Desmond Tutu, despite the fact that the former leader of the Labor Party, Jeremy Corbyn, who was a tireless campaigner against apartheid South Africa, at a time when it was not fashionable to be so, remains suspended from Keir Starmer’s Labor Party, along with countless other anti racists who echoed the words of Desmond Tutu on Israel, on the Palestinian territories, on injustice and on true anti-racism. The Labor Party’s shadow Foreign secretary, David Lammy, was also full of praise for Archbishop Desmond Tutu in virtually the same moment at which he apologized for having nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership of the Labor Party, despite the fact that just a few years ago he was singing Corbyn’s praises. It is worth bearing in mind that David Lammy never thought it necessary to apologize for voting for the invasion of Iraq. That has led to over a million deaths. But he did feel it necessary to apologize. Having nominated the only Labor leader who has apologized for the invasion of Iraq.
Jeremy Corbyn: So I now apologize sincerely on behalf of my party for the disastrous decision to go to war in Iraq.
Andrew Feinstein: Desmond Tutu refused to share a platform with Tony Blair because he believed that Tony Blair should be on trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Court. I know which Desmond Tutu would apologize for.
Desmond Tutu: Those who want to wage war against Iraq must know it would be an immoral war.
Andrew Feinstein: It is my belief that the most important thing we can do is to learn from our history rather than repeat it. It is incredibly hypocritical of our political leaders to praise the person who fought and overcame apartheid in the past while at exactly the same time they are stifling and trying to prevent us from halting apartheid today. The reality that Desmond Tutu would be suspended or expelled by the current Labor Party for his support of BDS against Israel is a reflection on the current morality of Keir Starmer’s Labor Party. That is not the legacy of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu’s legacy is that we have the principles, the courage and the convictions to stand up against all racism, to stand up against human rights abuses wherever they occur and whoever they are perpetrated by. Desmond Tutu taught us the importance of free speech. There has never been a more important time for independent media. Double Down news is more crucial than ever before at this moment in our political history. Join Double Down News on patreon.
