Andrew Feinstein, an advisor who took a leading role in the formation of Jeremy Corbyn’s new Your Party, has been accused of antisemitism after claiming the current UK government is being “directed by Israel,” the Telegraph reported in September.
Feinstein was recorded claiming that “powerful Israel lobbyists” were influencing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Labour government.
The advisor claimed that the proscription of Palestine Action, which was recognized as a terror organization after causing significant damages to a Royal Air Force base, “was undertaken on the instruction of the Israeli Government.”
While appearing as the keynote speaker at a Your Party event organized by the Marxist organization Counterfire, Feinstein told crowds, “In my opinion Britain is sleepwalking into fascism and that sleepwalk into fascism is being directed by Israel, and I know we aren’t supposed to say things like that but frankly... f*** that.”
“In the face of the world’s first live-screened genocide, and as the state of Israel haemorrhages support globally, the time for this ill-informed name-calling and pathetic attempt at ignorant and mendacious smearing is long past and totally ineffective,” the self-proclaimed “proud Leftie Jew” said. “I will stand up to it publicly as I always have, and so too will my colleagues.”
Condemning the statement
A spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism said in response that, “Already, advisers for the new party are kicking off proceedings with rambling conspiracy theories about the malign unseen hegemony of the world’s only Jewish state and daring Jews to call him antisemitic.”
“The very same ideologies and people that corrupted the Labour Party into becoming the first party found to be illegally discriminating against Jews appear now to have found refuge in the party being formed by Zarah Sultana and Mr Corbyn.
“Normally there would be no comeback for such politics, but this is the depths to which such people will drag us all.”