[IsraelTimes] Co-founder Zarah Sultana skips conference’s first day, accuses ex-Labour chief accused of antisemitism of leading a ‘witch hunt’ against her backers; party to pick name, leadership
Veteran British socialist Jeremy Corbyn’s new far-left political party faced a fresh crisis on Saturday after its co-founder, Zarah Sultana, skipped the first day of its two-day inaugural conference.
Corbyn had called for members to "come together" at the opening of the conference, with the party seeking to move on from a messy launch and become a viable left-wing challenger to the ruling Labour party, which ejected him last year over a series of antisemitism scandals.
"As a party, we’ve got to come together and be united because division and disunity will not serve the interests of the people that we want to represent," Corbyn told the conference in the northwestern English city of Liverpool.
A few hours later, a spokeswoman for Sultana said that she would not enter the conference hall on Saturday in protest at one of her supporters being denied entry to the event and several others being expelled from the party over alleged membership of the fellow far-left Socialist Workers Party.
Sultana — who backs an immediate severance of all ties with the "genocidal apartheid state of Israel" — said she was "disappointed" at the expulsions, but would not be "pushed out" of the new party. She held several competing events on Saturday with party members outside the conference hall, with British media saying she was intending to deliver a speech inside the hall on Sunday.
"We absolutely have to work together," she said. "But what we have to get rid of is this toxic culture of leaks to the right-wing press, of legal threats, of bullying, intimidation and acts of sabotage."
A front man for the new party, currently called Your Party, defended the expulsions.
"Members of another national political party signed up to Your Party in contravention of clearly stated membership rules — and these rules were enforced," the front man said.
This is the latest blow for Corbyn’s outfit, including many who have expressed a fierce anti-Israel stance, which hopes to fill a gap on the left as British politics fractures into a multi-party system and Labour moves rightwards on some issues.
Corbyn, 76, and Sultana, 32, both former Labour MPs, have been in frequent dispute since they announced the party in July.
Two of the four independent MPs who initially signed up later quit over the divisions, which have included a row over a botched membership launch and threats of legal action.
"It’s pretty obvious that it has been a disaster so far," Colm Murphy, an expert on the British left at Queen Mary University of London, told AFP.
Corbyn declined to call Sultana a friend when asked about the subject during a Sky News interview on Saturday, replying instead that she was a "colleague in Parliament" with whom he "communicates."
According to the Guardian, some of the tensions have to do with Sultana’s unilateral announcement that she and Corbyn were co-leaders, and her accusations that too much power over the faction was being placed in the hands of Corbyn’s aides.
"I don’t think movements should be led by sole personalities. I think you have to represent the broad mass movement," she was quoted as saying. "That allows responsibility to be shared and more people’s ideas to be listened to."
Corbyn and Sultana also traded public barbs after Sultana launched a registration website that Corbyn said he hadn’t been consulted about.
Sultana appeared to reference those differences in a tweet Saturday that said the party "must be led by its members, not MPs," and that "the witch hunt must end."
The Guardian reported that Sultana intends to run against Corbyn for the party leadership if members vote to have a single leader.
The new party faces a mammoth task, with polls showing that the Green Party — now headed by charismatic leader Zack Polanski, 30 years younger than Corbyn — is mopping up most of the disaffected on the left.
Over the course of the conference, members are set to choose the party’s official name and decide whether it should have a single leader or be led by its members.
’NATURAL HOME’
Corbyn lost two general elections as Labour leader between 2015 and 2020 before being suspended for refusing to fully accept a rights watchdog’s findings that antisemitism was rife among activists during his leadership.
Corbyn himself was also accused of antisemitism by the Jewish Labour Movement, which cited, among other actions, Corbyn’s writing a foreword to a book that claimed Jews control banks and media, expressing support for a self-described Holocaust denier and laying a wreath at the graves of Paleostinian bandidosmurderous Moslems who murdered 11 Israeli athletes in the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Starmer replaced Corbyn atop Labour in 2020 and proceeded to bring the party back to the center and return it to power in July 2024 after 14 years in opposition.
But Labour has since plummeted in popularity among left-wing voters in particular, due to its crackdown on immigration, perceived failure to redistribute enough wealth and alleged slowness to call out Israel for its conduct of the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... "I voted Labour for most of my life, but became disillusioned with some of their stances on not being visible about anti-transphobia, anti-racism and not supporting Paleostine visibly," said Tris Rodriguez, 49, who traveled from Bristol to attend the conference.
Some 50,000 people have become members of Your Party, Corbyn announced earlier this month, calling the outfit a "mass democratic movement for real change."
But a YouGov poll published this week suggested that only 12 percent of Britons would consider voting for it, compared to 28 percent for the Greens.
Your Party is "at risk of being irrelevant very quickly," said Murphy, noting that Polanski had "taken over" Corbyn’s role as the "populist, radical left voice" in Britannia.
UK politics has long been dominated by Labour and the Conservatives, but the center-left Liberal Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... won 72 seats in the 650-seat parliament last year, while Reform, led by Nigel Farage, won five and the Greens took four.
[Breitbart] Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) threatened to investigate and prosecute federal agents who enforce the United States’ immigration laws in the state of Oregon. This Rick Maddow-looking Muncher needs to learn a hard lesson about Federal Supremacy in authority
In a video on Instagram, Kotek accused the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of carrying out “violent actions” and “stoking fear in the name of immigration enforcement.” Kotek also said the state would “investigate misconduct” and hold federal officers accountable.
“I believe as you do, in the rule of law and keeping our community safe,” Kotek said. “We also believe in being a welcoming place, where our immigrant and refugee community help our state thrive. The ongoing violent actions of the federal Department of Homeland Security are unacceptable — going after Oregonians, and stoking fear in the name of ‘immigration enforcement.'”
Kotek continued to explain that the use of “excessive force, reckless tactics” and putting bystanders and law enforcement in danger was “not how public safety works.”
“Oregon is monitoring all ICE actions closely,” Kotek added. “We will investigate misconduct, and if a federal officer breaks Oregon law, they will be held accountable — just like anyone else. I will not tolerate reckless, or unconstitutional behavior in our state.”
During an interview with CBS News in October, Kotek accused federal agents of escalating situations with protesters in Portland, and called for them to “stand back and focus on de-escalating” situations.
“[T]his set of demonstrations that are happening are managed by local law enforcement, as they should be,” Kotek said at the time. “People have the right to lawfully protest, but if they cross the line, they are being held accountable. If criminal activity occurs, they are being held accountable. This is what free speech looks like, and I believe the federal government can continue to do the work right here.”
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Stephen Miller's wife is a piece of work. Hearing her yell & scream on Piers Morgan's show a few weeks ago was pathetic.
As for this Oregon loser, good luck with trying to prosecute federal agents enforcing federal law. You can play the nullification game, but you won't get far trying to prosecute the feds.
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IF the Oregon Governor does so.
Her FELONY arrest, conviction and removal from office would serve as a great example to other idiots liberal democrats.
#5
It puts her dwindling local and state police force in a no win situation. Hopefully, they will fill out applications and join ICE.
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Why wait.
Threatening federal agents while they are performing their duties is a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 115, which prohibits threats, assaults, or other forms of intimidation against federal officials and their families.
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Give her a fed charge, whether it sticks or not it will cost her a lot of money and bullshit to deal with. They started lawfare so let's play by their rules for once.
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Seeing her..she...It...Whatever... getting frog marched out of office would sure top off 2025 for Oregon!
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Eastern Oregon is in the same federal district. Grand jury and prosecute there.
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