Jews Conspire to Subvert Democracy

Example 34: 'Jews conspire to subvert democracy':

In the following examples, ‘Israel’s hand’ is accused of undermining the former leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn. In recent years it has very often been the contention that Israel - and British ‘Zionists’ working on Israel’s behalf - have acted along with the Tories, Jewish MPs and the right of the Labour party to undermine Corbyn because of his support for the Palestinians, by inventing or exaggerating instances of antisemitism within the Labour Party. Here are some of many examples:

The meme below was very popular in left wing circles. It's a complete distortion of the truth. For example, many MPs receive free subsidised trips to foreign countries, but Israel has been singled out, as so often. On this list is Trevor Chinn, a philanthropist from the British Jewish community, who has donated to a number of progressive causes and to political figures in the UK and elsewhere. He is a major donor to a left-wing Israeli NGO, the New Israel fund, which shares almost nothing of the ideology of the present Netanyahu government and works towards fundamental change in Israel; the Israeli government has in fact tried to ban it, for being 'anti-Israeli'.

In the following example, Asa Winstanley portrays Jon Lansman (a Jew, and founder of Momentum) as connected with a Zionist conspiracy to undermine the left of the Labour Party. Winstanley, who is described here as an investigative journalist, is better described as a blogger, and is responsible for the online publication Electronic Intifada; he was first suspended from and then resigned from the Labour Party. Although both men would be regarded as supportive of Jeremy Corbyn, Lansman's background (he spent time on an Israeli kibbutz, and his father was once a Conservative Councillor), and his periodic speaking out against elements of left antisemitism have at times made him a target for some figures on the conspiracist left such as Winstanley.

Jon Lansman is probably still the best-known Jewish figure on the present-day Labour left, and those who are suspicious of Jews, and some particularly militant anti-Zionists have given him quite substantial amounts of abuse. Lansman does not identify as a Zionist, and there is an argument that to describe a Jew as a Zionist knowing that they do not identify as such is an enhanced instance of antisemitism. We include here our own commentary exposing Winstanley, taken from a post on the Socialists Against Antisemitism Facebook page.

In the following example, allegations of subversion of British democracy have been extended to the Conservative Party, via, inter alia, Conservative Friends of Israel: Griff O-Malley concludes that the whole of the UK is 'Zionist controlled'.