I wonder what it could be that attracts a whole load of Jew hating Muslims to former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn? No. Scrub that. I believe that it’s perfectly clear why Jew hating Muslims support Jeremy Corbyn. They see in Corbyn a kindred spirit, someone who has never encountered an Islamic religious extremist or a leftist revolutionary that he hasn’t liked. Corbyn has long been associated with giving support to the terrorists and extremists of the Irish Republican movement and he’s also been very closely associated with the sort of Islamic extremists who hate and have murderous intentions towards Jews and to the State of Israel.

Not for nothing has Jeremy Corbyn been known by the nickname of ‘Jezbollah’ because of his willingness to pander to the sort of groups whose attacks on Israel force Israeli citizens when they hear the attack imminent sirens to have 15 seconds to run for cover in the relative safety of an air raid shelter. Under Corbyn the Labour Party became a party where those who wished to exterminate the Jews of Israel, whether they were coming from a religious or a far left political source, were warmly welcomed. It used to be the case that if you wanted to name a party that was stuffed full of the sort of people who believed the sort of stuff that the late and unlamented uni-testicled Austrian corporal promoted then you’d have to say the British National Party. Under Corbyn it became easier to find such people in Labour than anywhere else.

Whilst it is right to say that not every British Muslim is an inveterate hater of Jews, it would also be correct to not deny that Jew hatred is not uncommon in this part of society. A lot of these Muslim Jew haters, nearly four thousand of them, seem to have congregated in an online support group for Jeremy Corbyn called British Muslims for Corbyn.

The online anti-Semitism investigation group Gnasher Jew has done a lot of digging into the British Muslims for Corbyn group and has found a cess pit of Islamic religious Jew hatred along with the occasional far left type who is in agreement with the group. Gnasher has uncovered the activities of this group which contains Muslims who are avid supporters of Corbyn, including some elected Labour councillors.

Gnasher Jew listed some of the councillors that are said to be involved in the British Muslims for Corbyn group and I’m completely unsurprised at some of the areas that they represent. Areas like Rochdale, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest which are now heavily Islamified in parts have returned these councillors to office. There was also one other councillor on Gnasher Jew’s list who doesn’t have an identifiably Islamic name who represents a ward in the London Borough of Brent who also stood as a Labour parliamentary candidate in 2017.

What is interesting to note is that these councillors were not fleeting members of the British Muslims for Corbyn group, some of them have been members for four to five years. In addition to this knowledge that there are a lot of Muslim Corbyn supporters who are quite relaxed about being around Jew haters, Corbyn is also alleged to have given a message of support to this group and was photographed with one of this group’s members during the Peterborough by-election campaign.

It’s quite obvious that the British Muslims for Corbyn group contain the sort of people who, because of their views about Jews would probably have been quite happy marching with Oswald Moseley in the 1930’s. They are little different from the neo-Nazis I marched against when I was a much younger man. However I want to say something about how these people have been exposed. They were not caught because of the sort of ‘hate speech’ laws that Gnasher Jew seems to favour, instead they were caught because they were permitted to speak freely to a large extent.

If they had not spoken freely or been allowed to speak freely in their online group, then we would never have known who they were or what they were saying. The almost completely unfettered freedom of speech that I believe should exist, does allow both the good and the bad elements in our societies to speak, but such freedoms do not always benefit the bad. Allowing the bad to speak enables them to be identified and challenged with their ideas put through the metaphorical wringer.

I can’t help but wonder how much worse it would be if the members of the British Muslims for Corbyn were not as visible as they were? What sort of stuff might have been said or even plotted if this group were out of the public eye and operating in closed email groups or from the back rooms of extremist mosques? If bad ideas and disgusting individuals of the sort quite plainly present in the British Muslims for Corbyn group are not visible then how will the decent parts of society know about them and be able to challenge, mock or counter them?

What’s worrying to me about the British Muslims for Corbyn group is that they appear to have so many members across the country which were quite heavily embedded in the Labour Party. To be in such a position that you can get the former leader of the Labour Party to endorse and support them does not suggest to me that this is a group without political power and influence. Also as I have not seen any indication that the current Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has slated the members of this British Muslims for Corbyn group for expulsion from the Labour Party, it must be assumed that quite a few of them at least are still in the Party. If they are still in the party then they may well still be having influence over the party, maybe not at national level but certainly at local Constituency Labour Party levels.

Some of those allegedly involved in the British Muslims for Corbyn have been active in Labour Party politics and the Jewish Chronicle spoke of such activities in 2018. Back then they exposed one of those named in the Gnasher Jew report, an Islamic convert called Daud Niazi for their involvement in leaflets that urged the Muslim voters of the Ilford North constituency in Redbridge East London to vote against Lee Scott then a Jewish Conservative MP and to vote Labour instead. The leaflets claimed that Scott was an ‘enemy of Islam’ and Mr Scott alleged that his campaign team were approached by people asking ‘why are you supporting the Jew’ and some even making threats to kill Mr Scott.

Based on the Gnasher Jew report and historical data going back to the report in the JC from 2018, it seems that members of this British Muslims for Corbyn group are quite strongly and firmly embedded in the Labour Party. Some of the members of the British Muslims for Corbyn group might go a little quiet now that they’ve been exposed to public view but it’s more than a little possible that they’ve regrouped under a different name or even given mealy mouthed and untrustworthy apologies for their membership of this group. But this doesn’t mean that this group, its members or what they represent are gone from the Labour Party.

It is likely that these nutcases are still in Labour and the big question for me is what is Sir Keir going to do about it? Kicking out the ‘Jews for Jeremy’ type groups and the similar extreme left groups is relatively easy as they represent tiny political constituencies of extremists. Sir Keir can afford to be rid of them, it’s a relatively painless way of giving the impression that Labour is not a party full of extremist nutters. But will he have the balls to go after an Islamic group that might represent a considerably more electorally important constituency for Labour? If Sir Keir acts swiftly and expels or suspends the party membership of the vast majority of those involved in the British Muslims for Corbyn group then we will have some indication that Sir Keir is determined to make Labour electable among the broader public again. If Sir Keir does not act against the members of this group then we will know that Labour has not changed and that all he has done is rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic whilst it is sinking.