There goes the neighbourhood 15 August 2019
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21 Av I 5779
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Issue 1119
Brighton facing anti-Israel onslaught – BEFORE Labour holds its conference there by Jenni Frazer jenni@jennifrazer.com @Jennifrazer
Brighton’s Jewish community is holding fast in the face of an unprecedented onslaught of virulent anti-Israel speakers and events, ahead of the Labour Party conference in the seaside resort. Almost every well-known anti-Zionist activist is scheduled to make an appearance at conference fringe events at the Brighton conference They include people who have resigned before being expelled from the party, such as former London mayor Ken Livingstone, or those expelled such as former Momentum vice-chair Jackie Walker. Jewish Voice for Labour and Labour Against the Witchhunt are holding meetings, or giving
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platforms to, among others, the former Israeli Knesset member Haneen Zouabi, who believes Tel Aviv to be “occupied territory” and Asa Winstanley, who runs the fiercely anti-Israel website the Electronic Intifada, and describes the Community Security Trust as “Mossad-linked” and “anti-Palestinian”. Jenny Manson, chair of Jewish Voice for Labour, will be speaking as will antiZionist Israeli academic Ilan Pappe and, it is rumoured, controversial Israeli Miko Peled, who galvanised Labour’s 2017 conference by suggesting at a meeting of “Free Speech on Israel” that the Holocaust was a matter of historical debate. Suspended Labour MP Chris Williamson, who claims that the party is “too apologetic” about allegations of antisemitism, is also believed to be taking part in some of the events. Labour Against the Witchhunt, which campaigns on behalf of those it believes have been wrongly expelled from the Labour Party over antisemitism, is currently promising on its Continued on page 2
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