
In 2018, veteran Palestine solidarity campaigner and Jewish anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein was expelled from the Labour Party after being smeared as an anti-Semite. As has been seen so often during Labour's manufactured anti-Semitism crisis, the charges cited by party lawyers referred not to actual "anti-Semitism", but to legitimate criticism of Israel. On his blog, Greenstein had pointed to the anti-Palestinian record of the then Labour MP Louise Ellman. She's been a leading pro-Israel lobbyist in Britain for decades. At that time she was the vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel, and later became the group's chairperson. While in parliament, Ellman frequently asked questions on behalf of Israel and its lobby. As Greenstein put it, her habit was to "put forward […]
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