After Exposing Misleading Accusations, a Solidarity Campaign With Former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn

An investigation by Al Jazeera has revealed hundreds of thousands of leaked documents from within the UK's opposition Labour Party, which show how the party's bureaucrats have undermined their former leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was in office from 2015-2020, through dirty tricks, misleading accusations, and conspiracies.

 

 

Several hashtags such as #LabourFiles and #LabourCorruption have emerged on social media platforms during the past days after the broadcast of the second episode of the investigation Labour Files on September 25, 2022, which presents the largest leak in the history of British politics as a kind of solidarity with Corbyn and exposing the conspiracies plotted against him.

 

 

The leaks showed how Labour officials silenced, excluded, and expelled a large number of party members in a brutal campaign to destroy Jeremy Corbyn's chances of becoming Britain's prime minister.

 

Misleading Accusations

Al Jazeera has obtained 500 gigabytes of leaks containing documents, emails, and phone calls to Labour officials between 1991 and 2021.

In two episodes broadcast on September 23 or 25, 2022, Al Jazeera presented the efforts of British politicians and pro-Israel entities to get rid of former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has a long history of defending the rights of the Palestinian people and the Muslim community in the UK.

These efforts included political alliances against Corbyn, malicious complaints, and misleading accusations leveled against him from within his party on accusations of anti-Semitism, which targeted him, along with a large number of party activists who hold public opinions opposing Israeli apartheid.

British activist Peter Oborne urged people to watch the documentary, describing it as changing our understanding of the narrative that destroyed Jeremy Corbyn and exposing the image of a political party that hates and despises its members.

 

 

British writer Andrew Feinstein also called on people to watch the full version of episode 2 of Labour Files to understand how the anti-Semitism crisis within the Labour Party was fabricated, and Corbyn was accused of it for removing him from the UK political scene.

 

 

While the Jewish advocate for democracy in the Labour Party, Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, noted that such attacks against Corbyn are sad, noting that the destruction and disdain for the democracy of the party members and the silencing of Palestinian, Muslim, and Black voices is really shocking.

 

 

Alex Nunns, former speechwriter of Jeremy Corbyn, also invited people to watch the Al Jazeera documentary, noting that whoever watched the BBC Panorama documentary can judge which one is anti-Semitic.

 

 

 

Secret Leak

In 2020, the British Labour Party was shaken by the leak of a secret report that showed that the fall of former party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the 2019 elections and his removal from the leadership was not due to his recent electoral defeat alone. Rather, it was because of the internal conspiracies that had been hatched against the man since he assumed the leadership of the party, all of which were aimed at overthrowing him at any cost.

The anonymously leaked report to the press, completed just a few months before Corbyn stepped down as party leader, is a supplement to the Commission on Human Rights and Equality's investigation into the party's and leadership's efforts to fight anti-Semitism.

The report carried an acquittal of Corbyn of the accusation of anti-Semitism, as the committee confirmed that it had not found any evidence that the party leader was anti-Semitic or encouraged similar behavior, pointing out that the complaints submitted in this matter were dealt with, as are the rest of the complaints that require investigation.

Once this report was leaked at the time, many questions were raised as to why an important document remains tied up and unpublished to push the charges against Corbyn, especially in the recent election that saw an unprecedented campaign against him on anti-Semitism.

The report confirmed that Labour Party officials would have preferred to lose the elections than to see Corbyn as the leader of the party but rather sought with all their might to thwart the party's election campaign.

The report then quoted conversations between Labour leaders confirming that anything bad that happens to the party is a good thing for them because it will speed up Corbyn's departure.

Those who follow this case can only be surprised by the British media's reluctance, which is usually preoccupied with the smallest details, to follow up on this documentary investigation.

The English search engines are absent from everything related to the documentary, except for a single article published by Jewish News claiming that Al Jazeera, through its new documentary, is facing accusations of harassment of seven Jewish activists from the Labour Party.

On his part, Labour Party member Syed Siddiqi pointed out in a tweet that the exposed leaks had shed light on many irregularities, corruption, and abuse of power against left-wing activists within the Labour Party, noting that it is a painful and shocking reminder of what I and hundreds of others have had to endure and go through over the past years.

 

 

In turn, Aaron Bastani, founder of Novara Media, confirmed in a tweet that the third episode of Labour Files will be shown on Al Jazeera soon, denouncing the British press' neglect of such a documentary that contains evidence of racial profiling by members of the Labour Party and censorship on the basis of racial backgrounds.

 

 

Investigative journalist James Kleinfeld also condemned in a tweet the British media's silence on the biggest leaks in British political history that reveal the undermining of democracy in Europe's largest political party.

 

 

 

Anti-Semitism

Jeremy Corbyn was known for his distinguished political path while leading one of the most prestigious parties in the world, and the Arab and Muslim communities residing in Britain will remember his many positions in support of their issues that no British politician had ever expressed, which earned Jeremy Corbyn immense popularity in those circles.

Corbyn is credited with being the first political leader in Britain to raise the Palestinian flag at his party's annual general conference, which constituted the highest representation of the Palestinian cause in the history of the UK.

Years ago, many Arabs did not accept that the British Labour Party was a friend of the Muslim communities in the country due to the involvement of its former leader, Tony Blair, in the invasion of Iraq and the resulting psychological barrier between the party and the Arab communities.

However, Jeremy Corbyn succeeded in redressing the damage and regaining the confidence of the Arab and Muslim minority in his party, to the extent that in the last elections, more than 65% of Muslims in Britain voted for the Labour Party.

In turn, British activist and journalist Asa Winstanley commented on the facts presented by the documentary so far, saying: "What you have seen of the harassment and intimidation of anti-Israel activists by its supporters in the Labour Party such as Jenny Manson and Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi is just the tip of the iceberg of what actually happened."

 

 

While social activist Su Butcher said: "They have created an incredibly hostile environment for anyone, including Jews who are critical of Israel. Most of all, they have already succeeded in silencing the Palestinians and those who wish to support them."

 

 

Other activists have attacked Labour in general, as writer and activist Bill Dawson puts it: "The UK's second largest political party is riddled with racism, bullying and its undermining by a foreign government (Israel)."

 

 

In turn, Labour member Dave Anderson tweeted: "The leaks didn't reveal anything I didn't already know. The UK Labour Party is a corrupt anti-democratic organization that works with the apartheid state of Israel and uses anti-Israel sentiment to label socialists as anti-Semites."