How They Brought Down Corbyn – Asa Winstanley & Lowkey with Transcript

How They Brought Down Corbyn – Asa Winstanley & Lowkey with Transcript

 The deep state do not let into democratic power, who they dont want and they showed their hand when Jeremy Corbyn was elected as Labout leader of the Opposition

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Transcript

elcome to another episode of the Watchdog with me Loki here on mint press

0:07where we week in week out are investigating the structures of power

0:13which dominate our society and going against the grain by publishing stories

0:19that are often marginalized outside the eyesight and the earshot of the masses

0:27and this week we are here with a special guest who hopefully will be no stranger to our

0:35audience and it seems he has published possibly a seminal text of our time

0:43on what exactly happened with the killing of corbinism in this

0:50country he like me and many others saw it as a window to a better world we saw

0:58it as an opportunity to redistribute political social and economic power in

1:05our society we saw it as an opportunity to widen political participation we saw

1:11it as the chance of a lifetime by our hopes were dashed they were

1:18thrown scattered into a million pieces and thrown into the wind we saw people lose

1:26their livelihoods we saw people lose their sanity we saw people lose their

1:32reputations we saw good people whose aim was only the betterment of their society

1:39lose everything they had as part of the killing of corbinism

1:46people were sacrificed and ASA wins Stanley who is our guest today has been

1:53relentlessly chronicling this process in granular detail you have seen

2:02hundreds of vital stories to understanding what happened in this

2:07country during that time published not just by him but electronic interfer that other writers too

2:13tracking bit by bit with true Watchdog journalism

2:19in in extensive detail what exactly was happening in the labor party it was ASA

2:26who broke the story that Labor uh under case Dharma had employed a former agent

2:33of unit 8200 the um Military Intelligence signals

2:40Communications unit of the Israeli military which specializes in blackmailing Palestinians on information

2:46it has procured through surveillance of them into Labor’s office for the purpose

2:52of quote-unquote social listening it was ASA that broke that story it was ASA

2:58that broke the story about Ella Rose who was former employee of the Israeli

3:04Embassy and went on to lead the Jewish labor movement and it was ASA who broke

3:10the story about Gary lubner the new um

3:15Big Time funder of the labor party who Acer has in the last week or so revealed

3:22to not only be a key Israel lobbyist but also someone that benefited materially

3:28from apartheid South Africa and now Asa has released this book which it’s

3:36essential that we read to understand exactly what happened to all of us and

3:41how the hopes and dreams of millions not only in this country actually but across

3:46the world trying to find a new way that this political unit that we call Britain

3:53can have some type of role in the world which is not destructive and Colonial

4:00and Imperial and we saw corbyn as a chance for that people across the world

4:05understood him as somebody who had been anti-colonial in his mindset at key

4:11points in his life and they thought there was a chance for a better one but

4:17all of that was dashed what happened there sir yeah that’s a big question I think I

4:25think we still don’t fully understand what happened I think we still don’t fully know everything I

4:31have tried to write this book as a first draft really a first attempt of

4:38writing the history of this and I mean they you know they say journalism is the first draft of history and that

4:43is what I’m trying to do here I think that so many things have happened that we don’t know about and that we won’t

4:49know about probably for decades I think that the role of the British deep state in

4:56combating Jeremy corbyn is not fully known and it won’t be known

5:01for a while and you know it may never be fully known we we can’t say for sure but

5:06some of it is known so some of it was out there but I think that the role of the Israel Lobby was far more blatant

5:13but they worked together and so I I think that I did try and I have tried to

5:18get across in my new book that aspect how these different forces of the deep

5:24State really work together so the example that I opened the book with was when was when Corbin was first running I

5:31mean it sticks in everybody’s mind but it’s kind of there were so many things that happened during corbinism for one

5:39of a better phrase but I think it’s a valid term the British media went so crazy that

5:45it’s hard to remember it all and I’ve tried to bring it all together in a coherent narrative so the thing that

5:50really sticks out in my mind one of the things I opened the book with is Sunday Times story from 2015 when corbyn was it

5:58was it was very clear he was going to become the leader of the labor party um a serving senior General in the

6:05British army spoke to the Sunday Times They didn’t name him no doubt it must have been him

6:11I don’t know if any so being senior female generals he said

6:17that if Kobe was to become Prime Minister there would be effectively a

6:23mutiny that was his words there would be rebellions on all levels there’d be effectively immunity and why was that

6:29well that was because he was somebody who was close to the British peace movement

6:34that’s what it comes down to is he’s an anti-war activist and Britain’s

6:40Britain’s Imperial role Britain’s role as an Empire is over in the sense of

6:46running its own Empire but it’s now a vassal state of the American Empire

6:51in effect and Corbin is someone who has worked against that in his political life so

6:59him becoming the leader of the country was just something Unthinkable to these

7:04forces I mean look even on the British left we don’t know the history of this

7:11country of what what the British government has done what the British intelligence Services have done well the

7:17British military has done to undermine British democracy the the term deep state is used commonly by academics for

7:25uh countries like turkey and Egypt um and it you know the the term gets

7:31kind of a bad it’s been kind of devalued in recent years because Donald Trump has

7:36used it and people think it’s some sort of conspiracy theory but it’s not that and you know

7:44Donald Trump occasionally had a point about some of what he was saying because there were elements no doubt of the

7:49American deep State they didn’t like what he was doing they would have preferred someone more like Joe Biden

7:54on the other hand Donald Trump did absolutely work to further ultimately American Empire there’s no doubt about

8:00that like you know when he was saying that we’re going to stay in Northern Syria to keep the oil and all that kind

8:05of stuff we assassinated um the Iranian

8:10uh military commander and politician uh political leader qasim suleimani who’s regarded as a hero by millions in the

8:17Middle East for defeating Isis um anyway bit of a tangent but the point

8:22is that the British deep State the the the term deep state is used for countries like Egypt and turkey because

8:29what does it mean well it means the military and the security and intelligence the Spy apparatus

8:35essentially has a massive amount of influence on how the country is run to say the least it

8:42has a huge amount of influence in in Turkey it’s even reached the point where in the past the military has overthrown

8:49and had coups against the against the government so um and similar things happened in Egypt

8:54as well well I mean I mean also you’ve got the example of Ramsay McDonald when he was

9:00uh standing for prime minister yeah on the labor ticket you had the Zenith

9:06letters that came out which were supposedly from the head of the Communist Party in Russia being sent to

9:15Ramsey McDonald saying we are very excited for your election we support you

9:21we believe it will lead to Greater relationship between the Soviet Union and Britain yeah and then what comes out

9:27after it is that this was a hoax by um uh what seemed to be MI5 offices at

9:36the time yeah and then you have Harold Wilson which you know and Harold Wilson wasn’t

9:42even a Corbin he didn’t allow British troops to join the U.S he wanted to send British troops to Vietnam well he he

9:49didn’t in the end thanks to public pressure partly the Vietnam solidarity campaign that of course then led to the

9:55Spy co-ops and the special demonstration Squad and all of that but even he was too much for the British deep State I mean these are really good examples of

10:02how the fact there is a British deep State and it is still it has long long interfered in preventing democracy

10:08really in this country and it’s still doing that now there’s still absolutely there’s no doubt that it’s doing it now

10:14and he was doing it quite openly against Jeremy corbyn in some regards like just

10:19this this story in the Sunday Times was just a signal it was an open sick it was it was it was it was a sign that they

10:26would take active measures and so you know if that’s what they were doing openly

10:31we can only imagine what they were doing behind closed doors to to

10:37um sabotage this popular movement and I I think it’s so important that we we learn these lessons and um you know I I

10:44get into some of that in my book but I think it’s it’s a far wider project of um political education and

10:50self-education that we have to undergo you know in this in this country

10:56especially that um you know the British intelligence services are completely

11:02unaccountable you gave the example of um Harold Wilson who was really on the soft left of the labor party

11:08um he was an imperialist really essentially he was an appearance responsible for Diego Garcia you know he

11:14was depopulating of Diego and handing over of it to the U.S as a military base and he was um he was very pro-israel as

11:21well but because he had these you know moderately Social Democratic domestic policies it was not enough for the

11:29British deep State they had they they worked against him you know and there’s been some uh there’s been some really

11:34good books about it about the plot against Harold Wilson’s book called smear by uh Robin Ramsey and uh his

11:41co-auth I forget the co-author um but you know these forces the British

11:46British in spy agencies are completely unaccountable to any kind of democratic

11:52control and they don’t want that power taken away from them and so they they work to undermine these kind of popular

11:58movements from within because um you can’t you can’t stand up to

12:03people power ultimate ultimately it can’t be defeated but

12:09it can’t be defeated if there’s if it has solidarity you know if it stays unified if it’s divided against itself

12:15then it can be defeated and I think that that’s what we saw and my book focuses on the Israel Lobby you know the

12:21subtitle to weaponizing anti-Semitism my book is how the Israel Lobby brought down Jeremy corbyn and that’s not to say

12:28that they were the only Factor by any means but what that what the state of Israel and its Lobby

12:35did was they provided the most powerful political weapon to the British deep state to the

12:42American deep state to the whole of the political right in this country to work against corbyn everybody

12:50from the right wing of the labor party to the conservative party so the fascist

12:56right is now has that still now has this powerful weapon to say you lot are

13:03anti-semitic you lot you a lot of the real racists this is the idea because they’re also devaluing and they’re

13:09delegitimizing the whole concept of racism you know it’s been the

13:14anti-racist movement has has become so successful that you know popular

13:20movements over the decades time and time again the most recent one being black lives matter they’ve it’s become so

13:26successful that it is cut it is a badge of Shame rightfully to be racist in this country but then you can still have the

13:32Prime Minister the former prime minister of the country saying openly racist things and not being held account to

13:38account for it and obviously I’m talking about Boris Johnson um and I won’t repeat some of the things he said because they’re really

13:44disgusting but they was never there was never any accountability for him and now they’re sort of trying to find him

13:50guilty of having a party here and there which I don’t think most people care about to be frank with you

13:55um although you know obviously there was lockdown going on and you know I’m not saying there’s no validity to it at all

14:00but in comparison to his other crimes I would say is pretty relatively small

14:06um anyway the point is that you know I mean I’ve heard tell from

14:12anti-fascist activists and I’m sure you’ve heard the same thing you know when they’re trying to oppose British

14:18fascists these days like you know counter demonstrations against anti-immigrant campaigners and you know

14:25and I don’t even want to call them campaigners just you know basically a bunch of fascist Rebel outside the hotel

14:30trying to sort of attack uh refugees and Asylum Seekers

14:36um some of the most desperate people in willfully Wars though we’ve often caused in the first place the the British

14:41government um you know anti-racist campaigners are

14:46trying to act against them and they get the fascists coming back to them saying Oh you lot you all support you know you

14:54and Jeremy corbyn you’re the real racists because you’re anti-semitic yeah well they don’t even know what it means

14:59most of the time you know you don’t even understand the concept they don’t know what anti-Semitism is and they probably

15:05some of them are anti-semitic themselves you know genuinely actually really anti-semitic but this idea of

15:12anti-Semitism most of the time when it’s raised in this country is actually not

15:18prejudice against Jews or hatred of Jews as Jews it is

15:23when it’s being raised in this country is actually what is meant is opposition

15:28to Israel yeah is opposition to Zionism the political ideology the dispossessed

15:35nearly a million Palestinians yeah five years ago to found the racist state of

15:40Israel the settler Colonial entity um and so this is you know anti-Semitism

15:46is something that has happened historically yeah um and um you know but today the whole

15:53concept has been completely devalued into basically a political weapon to oppose change to preserve the status quo

16:00so so what we’re talking about is the formation of a trilateral uh Security

16:06State which consists of the U.S Israel and Britain in which they Outsource

16:13their problems to each other so for instance your recent piece

16:19um with kit clarenberg about the Palestinian Authority uh the the traitorous

16:26um scumbags of the Palestinian Authority who kill Palestinians for Israel

16:32um that it is basically commanded

16:38by figures former figures of British intelligence who work for the Adam Smith

16:44Institute which has contracts from the British government so it’s like the neoliberalization of spy Corps it’s no

16:52longer government bodies it’s organizations that are outsourced by

16:58government bodies yeah with names that kind of obscure what exactly their

17:03function is now the interesting things you have the establishment of this trilateral state which acts together in

17:11concert yes there is spying on each other yeah yes there is

17:19competition sometimes but generally there is a complete consensus about what

17:25their policy is the British benefit from the creative

17:31ambiguities of acting as the um the the troubled conscience of of of old

17:41school imperialists and they’re they’re able to and it’s you know that kind of leads us on to this question of the

17:47right Institute study of London in 2011 which I think is absolutely vital for

17:54all of us to have a good understanding of because what it does is it creates a designation of pro-palestinian activists

18:02and actors in London specifically but in the country as a whole now it designates

18:11Critics on one hand of Israel and delegitimizers of Israel

18:17now this is a room which contains solely delegitimizers certainly and and you

18:25know the the influence of the Roy Institute is important it’s huge because when you even look at that study

18:31particularly who is thanked in assisting in the production of that study yes

18:36Jeremy Bowman Jeremy Bowen is it Bowen or Bowen uh Bowen Bowen from

18:43the BBC is thanks so he contributed his correspondence Middle East

18:48for the BBC contributed to the Roy institute’s

18:54um study which was Israel the vast number of people yeah but but it took place though under

19:01the auspices of Israeli intelligence basically this study this is a you know

19:06ostensibly a non-governmental think tank but it it’s a cut out for the Israeli State and it says in it that we thank

19:13this particular figure from these governments very clear is closer Ministry the intelligence and funded by

19:20the same people that funded the same organizations that killed corbinism yeah now

19:25those designations exist for us and they determine the type

19:31of policy which is aimed at us so the delegitimizers are said to receive

19:38attack and sabotage wherever possible the critics now now this is where we go

19:45in an interesting Direction because we the the publicly aggressive Lobby groups

19:52stood up and identified themselves and this is one of I think the greatest

19:57failures of that period of time is that appeasement became a knee-jerk

20:03instinctive response by people who should know better right now it wasn’t

20:09even thought about it was just done yes so attack and sabotage is aimed at delegitimizers but critics

20:16are subject to sophisticated engagement strategy yeah these are you’re quoting

20:22it this is the exact words sophisticated engagement strategies so then surely for

20:28us our job is to actually analyze what are the sophisticated engagement

20:34strategies yeah that are targeted at the critics because what they say is they

20:40want to draw a wedge between the critics and the legitimizers yeah separate them

20:45yeah and this is basically what happened with labor labor was told be a Critic

20:50rely on international law don’t mention Zionism talk about a two-state solution

20:56embrace the Palestinian Authority that is the pro-palestinianism which is

21:01allowed in this country yeah the delegitimizers read electronic into father

21:07donate to Palestine action and listen to my music this is the wedge that was drawn the the

21:14critics are allowed to have membership of uh unions like GMB

21:21or even receive funding from unions like GMB yeah so then the question here is

21:28understanding that there’s this designation that has been applied to all of us

21:33what happened next I think the sophisticated engagement strategies were

21:39the Jewish labor movement and primarily primarily the Jewish labor

21:45movement the labor friends of Israel as well to a lesser extent but I don’t think that was particularly

21:51sophisticated because it was I mean look they you know I think it was

21:56very clear who they were um even though you weren’t allowed to say they’re a throat group for the

22:01Israeli Embassy they blatantly were and they were caught on camera by Al Jazeera saying that essentially

22:07um Michael Rubin who is now the full-time director of Labor friends of

22:13Israel was caught on camera by Al Jazeera saying that we

22:19Joan Joan Ryan then the main MP leading labor friends of Israel will talk too

22:26shy most days shy myself being ostensibly the representative of the Israeli

22:33Embassy but was actually essentially an Israeli intelligence agent for the ministry of strategic Affairs so you

22:39have Labor friends of Israel its main MP is leading MP taking Direction essentially most days from the

22:47Israeli Embassy absolutely no doubt is still doing the same thing now as the cutout for the Israeli Embassy and I

22:52think most people you know even on the left of the labor party such as it is

22:58words at least privately they’ve probably perceived yeah it’s close to the Israeli Embassy but when it comes

23:05the Jewish labor movement was more sophisticated because in the sense of it was able to create more of an

23:12effective wedge because then you’ve got people with political opportunists

23:19no doubt but people with a massive platform are talking about Owen Jones especially whereas who has a mainstream

23:27massive mainstream platform is on the mainstream news all the time here’s the

23:33acceptable voice of the British left um he is who the mainstream media says

23:39is is the acceptable extreme of the left um and he was he was engaged

23:45he was engaged with this sophisticated engagement and he was able to say well I support the Palestinians I oppose the

23:52settlements um but I’m against all this anti-Semitism and Ken Livingston should be expelled for the labor party for

23:59stating historical factors for staying historical facts about Nazi uh Nazi Zionist collaboration in 1930 which has

24:06been extensively covered by in Hebrew in English there’s even for example on this

24:12issue of Nazi collaboration with the Israelis there’s been um dramatizations and series made about

24:20it in Hebrew yeah it’s a fact it had it happened and you know still nowadays the Israeli

24:27state collaborates with far-right groups it absolutely happens and if you look at the discourse between jabatinsky and Ben

24:34Gurion during that time Ben-Gurion is referring to Japanese guys

24:39as brown shirts yeah uh jabotinski is calling bengurion and Little Hitler yeah

24:45today you have Israeli political analysts and even members of the knesset

24:51calling Netanyahu and bengavir Nazis yeah this this course is

24:58completely permissible for some people yeah but to speak in these terms we are

25:06dancing all over the ihra yeah no it’s just a fact you know I mean uh

25:13you know our friend David Miller he you know one of the world’s foremost experts in the Israel

25:20Lobby I would say certainly you know certainly in this country um he you know fired from his job at

25:30Bristol University because he’s an anti-zionist even though he was found

25:36completely innocent of academicism by independent investigations he said the

25:41other day and I talk he did the other day he said something along the lines of I don’t know any other way than to speak

25:46the truth and you know yeah I identify with that because I think it

25:52you have to speak the truth and this is what happened it’s a fact that there’s no point in not talking about it like

25:58well it tells us something the fact that it’s really interesting you know you make you made a really good point about actually both main science factions of

26:05the Zionist movement the state of Israel now um they both sort of called each other

26:11Fashions that’s interesting you know both sites but the the ostensible design is left in the sensible Zone that’s

26:16right and they were kind of both right because they those those those those links did exist you know the the right

26:23wing zionists infamously actually reached out to the

26:30Nazi government to try and offered to strike an alliance a formal alone in 1941. yeah during the second world war

26:36and said we’ll go along with the Madagascar plan we’ll fight on the German side in World War II yeah they

26:44offered that um you know they’re gone it’s a historical fact argue with history I

26:49mean argue with the books that have been written about it it’s not us saying this is the document is there and um

26:56and you know the this as sensible Zionist left actions is a lot more than offer two

27:03they actually collaborated with um they actually collaborated with the Nazis so the the German I mean I have a

27:09whole chapter about it in my book so people can read all the details there but um and also there was the whole instance

27:16which we won’t have time to get into but of um the Hungarian Zionist leaders who really

27:23collaborated with um with the Holocaust and Israel katzner yeah you know this

27:28was a famous case in in Israeli history this was somebody who was very close to

27:35ben-gorian and many perceive many perceive that his libel case that he

27:43launched against um a gentleman who had been who someone

27:49from I don’t know if I actually remember wrongly but I think the person that was

27:54handing out leaflets talking about his collaboration with the Nazis this is Israel Katana I think his second name

28:00was Greenstein but I might be wrong

28:05but he so what happens is Israel katzner is a high-profile figure in the Israeli

28:13labor party um and he ends up trying to sue someone accusing him of collaborating with

28:19Eichmann and the Nazis yeah and it goes into court and it becomes very apparent

28:27that actually he did yeah and the interesting thing about that is that he

28:33did it at the behest of the leadership of the Zionist movement at the time rezo rezo katzner

28:40um also known as Israel has now he he didn’t want to sue but he was forced to by the leadership

28:47of the labor zionists because it was embarrassing for them long story short

28:52the guy ended up being assassinated by by the shin bear and the documents have been sealed for almost 100 years the

28:59documents have been sealed and um they are yeah they’re unlikely to ever be

29:05opened up until Palestine is liberated if they still exist you know yeah um at

29:10that point but they um yeah so you know this guy became an embarrassment and he was off and um

29:16because there was this big libel trial and um it’s just a fact yeah it’s just the fact you know and Ken Livingston

29:22mentioning it but how whatever your opinion is of of the way a person says

29:28something okay let’s just say for the sake of

29:35argument I don’t agree but just say for the sake of argument what Carolyn said was undiplomatic because I’ve had some people sort of argue that it doesn’t

29:41matter okay it doesn’t matter what are you saying you should have been was it wrong for being was it romantic no you

29:48know we needed a little a little less diplomacy and a bit more fire yeah and and the thing was is they were able to

29:56um un and dehumanizing stigmatizing demonize him you know this someone who

30:01was a a kind of an iconic figure of the labor party historically mayor of

30:10London you know um and they they threw him to the wolves

30:15and so really the writing was on the wall from that point that others would

30:20be sacrificed in the same way yeah this is this is it because

30:25this was the problem like so they were attacking Jeremy corbyn

30:31straight away from the summer of 2015 they were attacking him on this issue straight away they were accusing him around semitism saying he was an

30:37extremist on and on and on at first and this is what I try and Trace the lines

30:43of in my book because it would be impossible to to to recount every single instance of of

30:51this I tried it was a factory it was a factory it was a smear Factory it really was and I it was it was impossible to

30:57keep up with it all and in a way you don’t want to just debunk everything you want to stop things from happening in the first place but what I tried to show

31:04in the book and I think I’ve succeeded in doing is it started off attacking Jeremy corbyn

31:10personally he’s a racist he’s an extremist blah blah blah blah didn’t fully take off at first the

31:17reason being Jeremy corbyn is not a racist he’s not announced semi and people could see through it and a lot of

31:22these things were debunked and straight away they were attacking him on saying well you know oh they’re implying he was

31:30anti-semitic they were trying to imply it and say oh well you know you called Hamas your friends and all this kind of

31:36things well you know Hamas is whatever you think of it is a popular Palestinian

31:41political party and more importantly it is the leader of the Armed resistance

31:47which Palestinians support whether people like that or not is irrelevant it’s it’s not anti-Semitism and it’s a

31:54right of all occupied people according to multiple U.N resolutions um and democratically elected government

32:01exactly this is it that so it was it was [Music] um it didn’t

32:07it was sort of rolling on in the background and it was an irritant and annoyance and it made things difficult

32:13but it didn’t start to explode really until they they decided okay that’s not

32:19working we’ll try some the same thing but slightly differently we’ll go for the people around Corbin yeah we’ll go

32:26for the people around Corbin so even before Ken Livingston it was this event

32:32which a lot of people forget but was I think was really important was

32:38um what happened at Oxford University labor Club so I I have a whole chapter well two

32:45chapters really about what happens here in my book and people can read all the details there but in a nutshell

32:52at Oxford University labor Club there was an allegation and it became a big

32:57National story um and even had International Dimensions there was a columnist a prominent common

33:03columnist in the New York Times who who wrote a column about it

33:09um about oh an anti-Semitism of the left and the story in the national press was

33:14the leader or the co-chair of the Oxford University labor Club you know student

33:20is a fancy name for a student Society labor party student Society had quit his

33:26position because of anti-Semitism there’s a terrible you know they they announced the investigation

33:32um Ed Miller Band the former leader of labor party canceled a planned speaking event at Ulster University labor Club it

33:38was it was on all these headlines it was a terrible scandal um but there was no basis to it there

33:45was no evidence there was no you know no one asked any questions about it you know there was no evidence right and so

33:52when the when the guy his name was Alex young guy named Alex Chalmers he posted uh his resignation statement

34:01on Facebook about it you know I’ve I’ve quite formated my book I’ve still got the screenshots now although it’s

34:06deleted what he actually said was I’ve resigned yes he accused people of

34:13anti-Semitism but there was nothing specific there was no specific allegations except what he said was oh

34:20they voted in favor of Israel apartheid week yeah so you know the labor Club is

34:26deciding that he’s going to campaign for Palestinian equality and raise awareness of Israeli apartheid but instead of

34:33being able to do that he’s ignited this big National Scandal over a completely manufactured and invented idea of

34:39anti-Semitism in the labor party and this was really really important not

34:45just for that one that one story which was just one of many stories but it really started for

34:52two main reasons it started this trend of um people around Jeremy corbyn being

34:59attacked and it spread it so it spread it to the wider movement and that meant that you know obviously the people Corbin and

35:06his people were going to protect Corbin but then if there was you know some Pro Corbin student at the lab at Labor are

35:13they are they gonna protect him probably not they’re probably might consider him Expendable and um

35:20so people started people around corbyn started to be picked off one by one by

35:25one by one and that was ultimately in the end years later a few years later it

35:30led to the political assassination of Jeremy corbyn himself and the decapitation of the movement it was a

35:36war of attrition it was a war of trition absolutely and um you know you have to hand it to the enemy to the Israel and

35:43his Lobby they they they they did that successfully you know they did they didn’t give it up you know even in the

35:50altazira documentary the undercover altazira document which exposed this Israeli uh effectively in Israeli

35:56intelligence agent yeah an Israeli spy shy massage um he said it he said Don’t Let It Go

36:02when it was asked for advice about Jackie Walker who was one of these pro-corbing people yeah picked off Don’t

36:08Let It Go just keep keep on no no no no no no they did they did do that so the second reason why that was important

36:14uh in the smear campaign was because what it started was the first

36:22investigation the first of many many investigations into so-called anti-Semitism in the labor party I lost

36:28you know I I can’t remember my book I believe it’s about six or seven

36:33different investigations yeah and that was the first one it was the labor students investigation was never

36:40published it was never officially endorsed it was kind of hushed up but I did manage to obtain it yeah I didn’t

36:45publish it I published some extracts from it I didn’t publish it because it was a completely libelous document yeah

36:51it just met there was stuff in it that I managed to show was completely made up so I have a question here now and sorry

36:59one more thing yeah the guy who wrote it was then soon after given a job in labor

37:04friends of Israel and it would and he admitted to working closely with shy massage there you go so so so now now

37:10give us Asa um where because what people will say we

37:16do is we assume a lack of agency so they say okay these groups might be

37:23pro-israel yeah but they personally feel aggrieved by what they deemed to be

37:30anti-Semitism they say to us where’s your proof this is being directed by the

37:36political unit the alleged state of Israel breakdown for us where that issue of

37:44Direction comes into it because there’s things that you know I’m happy to play

37:49wingman on this answer but I’d love to hear you break down what I would say to

37:54that right is I’m sure CIA agents feel personally

38:00agree that whatever justification comes in their mind that American freedom is being crashed in in but specifically in

38:08this case that break it down for us so um yeah I mean what I would say is yeah of

38:14course the people in these groups they probably believe a lot of what they say yeah I think I don’t think they

38:20believe everything they say well I mean in a way you just gave me an example with shea Masood and he’s talking about don’t have a job this is a directive

38:27given by an Israeli government officials I mean but yeah but it’s it’s like it’s

38:33they work together and these these groups these prior Israel groups so this whole idea of oh

38:39oh you know you’ve taken away their agency I just think it’s a load of rubbish because

38:45they it is proven and shown that they act in close coordination with

38:53like that’s the whole point why would you have a pro Israel group if it’s not going to work closely with the state of

38:58Israel you know one of the pictures that I love is I always try to yeah is the

39:04picture that you are electronic into father published of Ella Rose

39:09next to um in front of David Cameron next to Israeli Embassy Personnel probably the

39:16Israeli Ambassador I think at the time I think when she worked there you know who else was in the picture

39:21the convicted frauds for Gerald Ronson right yeah yeah so

39:27there’s a united front being shown here of Israeli Embassy employees as well as

39:33the head of the CST well I think I think that photo was actually the heads of the

39:39different Israel Lobby groups CST Board of deputies uh jrc and so forth there

39:46was another picture where she was posing with um uh the former Ambassador and

39:51with Jeremy Newmark yeah yeah but I mean that in itself tells you something that

39:57these groups are so intermingled yeah they act they literally have revolving doors between them so she’s gone she

40:03worked in the Israeli Embassy and she’s gone straight from the Israeli Embassy to the Jewish labor movement and and tell us about the board of deputies

40:10trustees report 2020. yeah so the board of deputies is um all the deputies of

40:17British Jews it’s a very old organization you know it’s um

40:22you know it started in the 18th century I believe um but right up until

40:28the 1940s it was anti-zionist um but in the 1940s it was it was

40:36essentially a hostile takeover by the Zionist movement and I think this is something we don’t know enough about actually and if you

40:42read uh Paul Kellerman’s book which I relied on for some quite extensively actually for my book you know brilliant

40:50um Manchester University academic he wrote a definitive study of

40:56um the British left and Zionism subtitle history of a divorce it’s a really good

41:02book it’s really reasonable you know there’s a lot of academics who um frankly terrible Raptors he’s not one of

41:08them he’s a good writer as well as being a good researcher um and um in that he explains and this

41:16has been explained by other um by some you know anti-zionist uh

41:22academics and so forth of the concept of enzionism of the conquests of Zionism

41:30and um the way Paul Kellerman explains is there was there was three Conquest

41:36Central to the success of Zionism number one was the conquest of Labor number two

41:41was a conquest of land and number three was a conquest of community

41:46of of a Congress of communities um which is a little bit more complex and will come too the first one the

41:53complex of labor was essentially um

41:58uh replacing Palestinian coming to Palestine colonizing Palestine and

42:04getting rid of Palestinian workers and that’s what you get yeah

42:10get rid of the Palestinian workers replacing them with Jewish workers yeah colonies number two conquest of land

42:17physical conquest of the land yeah number three was the conquest of communities now that’s more complex

42:23because the first two are more about Palestine number three is the Congress what is meant by Congress or communities

42:29is the Congress of Jewish communities yeah in Europe and in and in Iraq and in

42:35around the world yeah yeah yeah and what was meant by that was taking over the institutions yeah the institution

42:42institutional bodies of Worlds jury and conquering them for Zionism and that was

42:48you know to a large extent outside of um uh religious Ultra Orthodox communities

42:55and um outside of um you know secular left-wing anti-zcionists

43:02that was that was done to a very large extent and so this is a long way to go about saying that the board of deputies

43:08of British Jews essentially claims to represent all Jews but is actually really

43:13in large part an Israel Lobby organization that’s what it spends most of its time doing and the document that

43:19you mentioned spells that out it says we have a quote close working relationship with the

43:24Embassy of Israel including the Israeli military spokesman and the ministry of

43:30strategic Affairs which is essentially an Israel well it’s now been uh supposedly disbanded but in reality

43:36folded into other Ministries but it was really a semi-covert Israeli sabotage

43:42agency precisely for this kind of Road Institute to advise staff that you

43:48mentioned since 2009 and a series of reports by The Rage Institute starting

43:53in around about 2009 2010 2011. the the recommended strategy was quote as you

44:00said sabotage and attack hubs of what they call delegitimization uh in the west and they especially

44:06focused on London um and other you know what they regarded as delegitimization Palestine solidarity

44:14centers of Palestine solidarity around the world I mean it’s interesting you mentioned the conquest of communities there’s an

44:21amazing book by Abba shibla um called um the law of Zion and it’s looks in in

44:28intense detail at the campaign in Iraq to get what was referred to as Zionist

44:34in Misery by Zionist the Mysteries at that time as good human material so the

44:40Iraqi Jewish Community ancient Community um had attained a certain level of not

44:48only political but economic power in Iraq throughout the British Mandate of Mesopotamia

44:53but former Finance Minister prominent member of the Iraqi Jewish Community

44:58um to Aid in what Yusuf and Kabir who was an Iraqi Jewish lawyer in the 30s

45:04their militant archeology that’s what he called Zionism a form of militant archeology and that campaign is

45:12fascinating because not only does it um involve the provision of key

45:20um social assistance that one might imagine it even ends up in seemingly in

45:28in shiblock’s book he he he makes the claim that both the British Embassy the

45:35U.S embassy and the Iraqi government had a consensus that the the the the the

45:42the bombing of synagogues in Iraq including cafes that

45:49were frequented by Jewish people had taken place by

45:54um Israeli intelligence in 1951 because they’d been able to pass something called the

45:59denaturalization law said is somebody who they’d been cultivating

46:05at least since the 20s and 30s so at one point they tell future was an Iraqi

46:12political figure who went on to be prime minister in 1951. now he was somebody who had shown a

46:19willingness to um carry out a population transfer

46:25this was back in the 20s and the 30s whereby Iraqi Jews would be sent to Palestine

46:31and Palestinians would be taken into Iraq outstanding plan of Zionism was to express population Palestinians to Iraq

46:38yeah and so what he then did in 51 was he passed this law which would allow

46:44Iraqi Jews to leave their Iraqi citizenship give up their property and

46:51anything they owned and become Israelis right now what about does in

46:58this book is he tracks the exact figures of people months by months that took up

47:05this offer and so he looks at the first three months from the denaturalization law was passed and it’s very small uptake yeah

47:12you know from the centers like Basra and Baghdad which had ancient words why

47:17didn’t they go to why would they go to this the the statement had been at war with the state had been at war with you

47:24know the the the the the period of 48 and the war with you know the

47:30governmental and monarchy um betrayal in some ways had been

47:37popular you know the the the Iraq’s participation in the war in Palestine

47:43was widely supported in Iraqi Society legislation had been passed you know

47:48despite the fact that the government um like I say had uh had ultimately

47:54fallen in line with the hashemite position which was to facilitate Israel

47:59basically um they had passed legislation against uh Zionism in the society in general

48:06however and the interesting thing is that whether it was the third or the fourth

48:12month I can’t remember exactly but it was the month when the Turning Point happened these bombings took place

48:19then people leave at 100 over 100 000 people leave

48:25um but then when they get to Palestine they find themselves into there’s an amazing uh documentary about insa

48:31Baghdad um which speaks to some of these people that had taken this journey and they say

48:38that when we got to Palestine we were left in camps yeah and the

48:44Israelis sprayed us with DDT when we got off the plane and we had to

48:51um you know and then this goes into the stratification within Israeli Society on racial lines racism again Zionism was

48:57racist against um you know against Jews as well Jews

49:03who were from Arab countries and they considered them to be

49:09sort of uh posits these people as Arab victims of Jewish victims of Zionism

49:15Arab Jewish victims of science but you know obviously we do know that

49:21there’s a heavy heavy uh contingent supporting the the most right-wing

49:26Zionist policies Within These communities now of what they call them is but you know at that particular time

49:33this was a group of people viewed as useful human material but it’s just really interesting the way that that

49:39conquest of communities manifested in different contexts he had the situation in Egypt for example

49:45um uh Lavon the Israeli Minister of Defense now this is an interesting one it’s not like Iraq Israeli government

49:51take credit for it so during Abdul NASA’s time you have bombs placed at positions of U.S

49:59importance but also positions of Jewish importance in Egypt by Israeli intelligence to the extent that Lavon

50:06even got an award by the Israeli government for this this operation yeah

50:13it’s called the Lavon Affair in Israel because it I forget it all came out you

50:20know in Israel like some years later and there was some Scandal over it but it wasn’t the fact that the Israeli state

50:27had carried out this massive Terror operation against primarily Jewish Targets in Egypt

50:36um as a false flag um in order to basically provoke war with Egypt

50:42um it I forget what that wasn’t the Scandal the Scandal was some relatively minor political thing I forget all the

50:48details of it now but it was just yeah they hadn’t done it effectively enough or something like that but that all came

50:53out and that was all proven but it’s still now not really considered to be much of a problem you know it’s kind of

51:00a forgotten bit of History the the Iraqi I mean the the the Jewish community in

51:06Egypt was relatively small I think but the Iraqi Jewish Community was was fairly large and it was

51:13I was very ancient as well you know so um yeah I mean I think that is a massive

51:18I mean I personally have no doubt whatsoever that um Mossad was behind those bombings of synagogues and and um

51:26um other Jewish Community areas in Iraq you know it they absolutely drove all

51:32that um I think it I saw an interview with the um the Academia Kevin schlain

51:38was a really interesting um it’s a really interesting and impressive historian who um you know he

51:45uh he’s often described as Israeli I would uh to me he’s an Israeli he’s an

51:50Iraqi Jew that’s it um um he’s an interesting character because I think he’s kind of moves more

51:56anti-zionist over the years but anyway that’s as maybe but the point is his background is from Iraq I think he might

52:02have even been born in Iraq certainly his parents well yeah um and um he did an interview some years

52:09ago with Asante Mimi and he asked him about these incidents yeah and he’s he

52:15and he said you know what have you found anything in the archives about this and he said well I did check the Israeli

52:20archives but I couldn’t find any concrete evidence of this but he said every single member of my family

52:27believes that was done by the muscle so that is widely known and you know that

52:34is widely known within those communities I mean it’s interesting well I think that is something that will probably

52:39come out in the future and then with the yemeni community this is the other thing you think the children were kidnapped

52:46literally kidnapped by by um white Jewish families yes by the

52:52state yes by the by the Israel and the parents were shown Graves so I

52:58understand we’re talking about yemeni Jewish population that is

53:04another ancient population by hook or by crook is it lured into Israel

53:10the children were kidnapped from these yemeni families it’s again it’s another

53:16scandalism Israel which is not talked about in the worst and the yemeni families were told your children died in

53:22birth and were shown Graves the children who were not dead and who had been kidnapped and taken into

53:28Ashkenazi you know I mean this is white supremacy would you want to call it twice yes absolutely yeah

53:36um you know what I’m sort of partly interested in as well when you were talking about the far right aspect is

53:42you know we can’t forget that Tommy Robinson he was a Shellman fellow at the you know

53:49because the the far right were also making uh Leaps and Bounds during this

53:54time you know until Tommy Robinson was taken off of social media he was

54:00reaching millions of people Dale through social media now I’m not I’m not one of

54:06these people that sort of gets the state to then shut down people whose opinions

54:12I don’t agree with but when you look at also his funding and you understand that okay he was a Shulman fellow at the

54:19David Horowitz Freedom Center okay David Horowitz well-known Israel lobbyist that’s a fact Robert shillman though was

54:26on the board of the friends of the IDF at the same time as he was given a calling to Lucy Brown ten thousand uh

54:33pounds or dollars a month Tommy Robinson um as a shillman fellow which was a

54:39position also shared by Ben Shapiro Tommy Robinson then goes through his court situation who pays his legal fees

54:46the Middle East forum who leads the Middle East Forum Greg Roman who’s a

54:51former employee of the Israeli Ministry of Defense in the Israeli foreign Ministry so in a way there’s direct role of

55:00people involved with the mechanics of the Israeli state

55:06pushing Tommy Robinson and His ideas in British Society you look at Katie Hopkins in a way there was a bit of a

55:12split here because at one point the board of deputies um you know issued statements against

55:18Katie Hopkins but Katie Hopkins received a huge amount of support inside occupied Jerusalem by the Israeli man of

55:26Jerusalem who’s now gone on to a higher government position under the Netanyahu government

55:32um and Katie Hopkins was also supported by David Horowitz Freedom Center so in a way you’ve got you know when we were

55:39talking earlier about racism it’s like we have had and explicitly islamophobic foreign policy

55:47as long as I’ve been alive there’s been people that I consider myself to have an affinity with on the

55:54other side of British government and U.S government and Israeli government which is the trilateral security state which

56:01lurches over us on the bottom of those bombs so this is State sanctioned racism

56:08that is just the norm and yet at the same time we’re seeing an opportunity for us to to widen political

56:15participation in decision making in the society or we’re the ones called the races when we’ve been working all these

56:21years against the racism which has hurt us and hurt our families yeah yeah this is where we reached her and this is why

56:28it this is why it was such a powerful weapon because it really got it really

56:34got to people and you know people sometimes say to me well was it all the Israel lobby wasn’t

56:40it brexit I’m not saying it was all the Israel Lobby that’s not the point the point is that it this was the most

56:46damaging weapon that was used against this popular movement in a way that brexit

56:53wasn’t and because to be you know okay people have different

56:58you know opinions over brexit at the end of the day so what the point is

57:05Jeremy corbyn was being attacked personally attacked as something that actually go to his heart

57:12which was or you’re racist you know I think he probably started to believe not that he was racist but oh

57:18maybe there’s something in all this so maybe I need to do something about it and this was the problem you know this

57:24was the real problem because they were beating a delegitimizer into a Critic

57:29yeah yeah yeah I think I think uh

57:35I think that was that was the project absolutely you know and um

57:40uh it was it was incredibly damaging because ultimately it was it was divide and Rule and it was like you said it was

57:47what they called what the riot Institute called the the wedge strategy yeah because they know this is why sabotage

57:55and attack was so important for them it wasn’t um winning hearts and Minds no no but

58:02but that’s also because they knew they can’t and and they’ve also with you know the science movement has always been top

58:08heavy yeah it’s always been top heavy because it’s never been massively successful in an organic Grassroots way

58:15it has always had this Israel doesn’t have a membership yeah if you look at people people informally say oh they’re

58:22a member of Labor friends of Israel if you go on to labor frenzy as well website and you try to join as a member

58:27you can’t there’s no membership form yeah because they they in the past they

58:33did have members decades ago but again this is something Paul Kellerman talks about they had to wrap it up because

58:38they they didn’t have enough supporting them instead they get supporters who are

58:43the supporters their MPS their Lords you know they’re these prominent figures within the labor party yeah

58:50um so you know it’s um it shows they don’t have they don’t they don’t have

58:55the people on their side they don’t have any kind of mass movement all they have is lobbying money

59:01and delegitimization and just dirty dirty tactics and smears essentially and

59:07they do have a lot of money this is a fact and um we don’t talk about it enough we don’t I mean part of the

59:13reason we don’t talk about it enough because we don’t know enough about it because it’s completely opaque yeah but

59:18shy massage Infamous one million pounds where was it going where did it go we

59:23don’t know we still don’t know they claim it was for trips for young people yeah as well yeah but I mean that’s

59:29that’s the Drop in the Ocean yeah you know one million pounds when we when we think of across these years what has

59:35flown in and out you know and there’s Pastor organizations this is the truth and they I’m sure they buy MPS I’m sure

59:42they do but because not all of these people like who was Joan Ryan anyway yeah and who is this guy what is it

59:48Steve I can’t remember any of their names who is Joan Bryan’s successor I think his name’s Steve Reed yeah who is

59:54he no one’s heard of him yeah but here’s the question then ASA is um how does

1:00:00that lead us into your Latest Scoop which is Gary lubner yeah so the the one of the big

1:00:09cleavages within the Corbin years and one of the potentials for change that we saw that you talked about at the beginning was that you know one of the

1:00:17things that was changed that did briefly change in the labor party was the potential to involve a mass

1:00:25movement of people you know for good for some sort of positive change in the

1:00:30country and one of the ways that that would have been done and they did start to happen to an extent was to remove the

1:00:38corporate lobbying money from politics and to replace it with people with

1:00:43people power and you know Jeremy corbyn ultimately left the labor party in very

1:00:49good Financial shape and that was because um it was supported by a mass movement

1:00:56of members which would was nearing 600 000 people at its height you know it was

1:01:02um reaching record levels in the labor party you know under Tony Blair the labor party became this corporate husk

1:01:08which was financed by major corporate donors essentially uh the leading light

1:01:14of which of course was Michael Levy infamously known as Lord CashPoint

1:01:20um because he was he was himself a donor um to uh Tony Blair’s neoliberal labor

1:01:27party but more importantly he rallied other big businessmen big

1:01:33businessmen to support labor newly the new labor project

1:01:38um and he was he was a very influential uh Israel lobbyist and so you know that

1:01:44all fed the direction of neoliberal pro war pro Israel labor under Tony Blair

1:01:51and the corbiners that started to change because just the very fact that Corby was in

1:01:58charge of it meant all these big donors started pulling out and some of them actually had made loans which was really

1:02:04interesting they’d made loads of the labor party well they started to call those loans in when Corbin came in and they were all

1:02:11making a big fuss about oh we’re gonna We’re Not Gonna donate any more and you know probably just said okay good

1:02:17you know so that was good but the problem of course now is that

1:02:22200 000 people who joined the labor party to vote for Corbin have now been kicked out essentially kicked out or

1:02:29pushed out of the labor party in some way by the purges of the membership that have happened under case Dharma and that

1:02:37really let’s be honest began in the corbyn Years um

1:02:42now you know as especially targeting the pro-palestinian left Palestine

1:02:47solidarity activists and so forth now those 200 000 people have also taken

1:02:53their membership fees with them so this was what was replacing the corporate donors was just small small bonus

1:02:58individual people giving their monthly uh whatever it was five or six pounds or whatever it was

1:03:05um and and then at election time rallying around putting in 20 pounds whatever it is needed and that was

1:03:10incredibly successful you know it was never talked about by that and you know we saw similar things happen with other

1:03:16Insurgent campaigns Like Bernie Sanders and so forth that people power has now gone and it’s we’re bringing with the

1:03:23playwrights are back in and so is looking for big donors again and he’s

1:03:29bringing them back in and it was announced earlier this month by the financial times which basically did

1:03:36a puff piece interview with this guy that one of these big donors and potentially the biggest one is going to

1:03:42be a man called Gary lubner now Gary lubner you know I read the article it didn’t say it

1:03:49didn’t say that he was an Israel lobbyist but I thought yeah let me look the guy up I bet he is

1:03:55and sure lo and behold he is an active donor and financier of the Israel Lobby

1:04:01in this country and you know no doubt all over the world um he’s certainly a long-term uh founder

1:04:08of the ujia which is um very the United Jewish Israel appeal which um sends

1:04:15young people mostly Jewish young people on trips to propaganda trips to Israel to basically indoctrinate them into

1:04:21Zionism where they’ve been found to stay in illegal settlements in the legal settlements as well

1:04:27um so this this um is and is actually very closely tied to the state of Israel itself so he’s a

1:04:33long-term supporter of that but what was also interesting in this story was that what I found was that Gary ludno is a

1:04:39South African so but he’s lived in this country for uh a good number of years now

1:04:45um since he um began working um well rewind the story a bit the

1:04:52interesting part is he he was a South Africa he is a South African he

1:04:58um is uh basically the Scion of a very rich family very rich white South

1:05:04African family um which ran a company a family firm

1:05:09which was later you know at certain points was worth billions

1:05:14um and was doing billions in sales it was it started off as a a plate glass for a windshield swim and actually the

1:05:21company now still owns the brand in Britain it owns Brands all over the world but the most famous brand in

1:05:26Britain is Auto Glass which you know if your windscreen gets broken by uh by damage or thief or whatever you get your

1:05:34windscreen replaced well this company started in South Africa and it made it made a huge amount of money expanded

1:05:40into construction and and all kinds of areas it was known as the PG group

1:05:47and Gary lubner later started was later in charge and CEO of bellron it’s

1:05:52International arm which acquired all these brand names all over the world or started them I’m not sure of all the details

1:05:58um including Auto Glass now PG group was and this was uh something

1:06:05that I was informed about by Andrew Feinstein former uh NC MP in South

1:06:12Africa you know be familiar with two lots of views of your podcast he told me that

1:06:18the love does the London family were very well known in South Africa as sanctions Busters

1:06:24during the South African apartheid regime and it was really interesting what I found out on it so and this is

1:06:30not just this is not a case of blaming the Sun for the sins of the fathers that’s that’s not that’s not what it was

1:06:36so the company PG group was owned and run by uh Ronnie lubner who was Gary

1:06:44lubbinger’s father and also his brother um Percy lubner so Gary lovener’s Uncle

1:06:50yes okay they’re relatives but that it was a family firm and Gary lubner went

1:06:57into the family business he became an accountant and through the 80s through this sanctions bursting period he was an

1:07:03accountant for the family later went on to run he went let’s went on to run the

1:07:09CEO of course later now in the post apart idea he’s claiming that he was the like a lot of white South Africans

1:07:16um he you know claims to have been against apartheid well the fact is that

1:07:21you know something like 90 of what South Africans voted in favor of Apartheid

1:07:28so you know these kinds of claims false claims of oh I was against it all along

1:07:33are quite common unfortunately but the fact is he he made his billions off a

1:07:39company that played an active role in supporting the South African apartheid regimes white supremacist regime so for

1:07:48example Bertie and Ronnie lubner they actually donated they personally donated to the ruling National Party

1:07:54um to the prime minister in the early 80s PW bota who let’s not forget was uh

1:08:01at one point in the 1940s was involved in the South Africa Nazi group and explicitly pro-hitler organization he

1:08:08later left it but he was a white supremacist his whole life there’s no doubt about that and he went he ran a

1:08:14very viciously um white supremacist racist regime um at the time when there was just a a

1:08:22really brutal uh regime in South Africa a a military dictatorship essentially

1:08:29claimed to be a democracy but it wasn’t um quite similar to apartheid Israel in

1:08:35in a lot of ways um and so this and also Ronnie and Bertie lubner

1:08:42they also offered 15 million dollars to start a Lobby group a pro apartheid

1:08:48Lobby group in Washington DC on behalf of the regime and this was all this all

1:08:53came out later only came out a few it only came about about five or six years ago in South Africa but very well

1:08:59reported in South Africa and it’s all there to see um and so it’s quite fitting in a way

1:09:05that this man would be funding the labor party in Britain of of today

1:09:11because the leader of the labor party today has made it clear that his only

1:09:16issue that he’s really passionate about is supporting a parasite Israel he has called himself a

1:09:24supporter of Zionism without qualification that was his pitch when he was running that was his pitch to the

1:09:30Israel Lobby when he was running for leader of the labor party and so it is Kia Stamo has made this

1:09:36um his kind of emblematic issue and Gary lubner was an interview with the the

1:09:41puff piece interview with the well it was basically a press release for Gary lubner in the financial times and he you

1:09:48know he was claiming in the article oh under corbyn there was all this anti-Semitism in the party and my

1:09:54youngest son was attacked with it and it’s great that kissed armor was thrown them all out to his credit so the point

1:10:00is now is to secure the labor party for the future for the corporate interest

1:10:06for the Israel Lobby um and to ensure that nothing like corbinism can ever ever happen again in

1:10:13the labor party and that the status quo is maintained indefinitely and that is a fantastic way to wrap us

1:10:21up today we are unfortunately out of time thank you so much ASA

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Big Brother Watch – Army SPIED on UK public during lockdown, whistleblower reveals

British army spied on british public in “sentiment analysis” for the government.

British Army spied on the British public so that criticism of the Government could be monitored. This is very sinister and authoritarian. 77 brigade sentiment analysis, twitter

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Anything that was negative really to Boris Johnson, you’d take a note of it,

0:04put it on the on the slide deck, and then send that on.

0:07The way the way we were working, it would be impossible

0:10not to also pick up British citizens.

0:12I know that

0:12some of the more lusty members of the team would go on to their personal profile,

0:16look into the person and see what their history was about.

0:19For the first time an insider from the Army’s controversial Information Warfare Unit,

0:24the 77th Brigade, has spoken out,

0:26giving an exclusive interview to Big Brother Watch, lifting the lid

0:28on how social media was monitored during the pandemic.

0:32At the time, military leaders promised us

0:34that the 77th Brigade was not being deployed against the British people.

0:37But in this exclusive interview, the former soldier tells how British

0:40people’s social media posts were collated and passed to the Cabinet Office

0:44by the PSYOPS unit as a part of sentiment analysis about the government.

0:4877th Brigade worked with the Rapid Response Unit,

0:51one of the anti-misinformation units sitting at the heart of government.

0:54We’ve been investigating them for months and our report exposes

0:58how political surveillance masqueraded as anti-disinformation work.

1:02Welcome to the 21st century Ministry of Truth.

1:25Could you tell us a bit about

1:27what the 77th Brigade is and a bit about what you did with it?

1:32The 77th Brigade is a relatively new unit and it’s formed

1:36within a number of different organisations that existed before

1:40but were subordinated under a different hierarchy.

1:44One of the sub units, if you like, is the outreach

1:47group and they’re focused mostly on

1:50working with other nations and building capacity

1:52and that sort of thing.

1:57Literally outreach to foreign countries, developing countries.

1:57That was something

1:58that I was more allied to before it subordinated under the 77th Brigade.

2:02But then also within the 77th Brigade, there’s a unit

2:06which is a more focused on information operations, and that’s

2:10the unit that I was seconded to at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2:14As it turns out, the commander of the 77th Brigade at the time was very keen

2:18to make sure that he could provide manpower towards the COVID-19 response.

2:22So as a result, he offered up to the Cabinet Office,

2:26his unit,

2:27and sold them a capacity really that never really existed under the 77th

2:32Brigade before, although it was one that they really wanted to get into.

2:36So, the Cabinet Office were very keen to take him up on that

2:40and so they said, “yeah, go ahead” and really

2:42there was a kind of general panic where they were looking around for people

2:46who could live up to that promise, if you like and that’s where I came in.

2:50So what capabilities was it that the 77th were pitching in to the Cabinet Office?

2:55So, my understanding of it is — and I wasn’t present at the time,

2:59but it’s subsequently been told to me that, really,

3:02they were offering up a way

3:05of monitoring hostile foreign state misinformation online.

3:09So, they would look at social media and they would establish sock puppet

3:13accounts that were perhaps working for foreign governments

3:16with the aim of inspiring panic in the population

3:18or essentially doing down the efforts of the government.

3:22Very quickly, this mutated and for various reasons,

3:25mostly to do with the capability of — it was a very fledgling

3:29capability, no one had real expertise on it.

3:33It got focused entirely on Twitter because

3:37there’s no front door.

3:38Basically, you can just go onto Twitter to see everyone’s tweets.

3:41It’s not like Facebook

3:42where you have to follow someone and they have to follow you back.

3:45However, that works.

3:46But as a result of that, it became very much,

3:49a kind of monitoring sentiment of the British public

3:53and how they perceived the conservative

3:55administration doing a COVID-19 response.

3:59So, this was between the Cabinet Office and the 77th.

4:02What was the relationship

4:04that, sort of, I know you said the 77th approached the Cabinet Office.

4:08Then, in terms of working, who was leading,

4:10who was defining what was going to be done?

4:13So, I know that when I first arrived

4:15at the unit, there were liaison

4:18officers and advisers who were all over the governmental departments.

4:22So we had representatives within the Cabinet Office.

4:25But the way I’m led to believe it happened was that the commander of the 77th

4:28Brigade went directly to the Cabinet Office and offered up the capability.

4:33Now, whether that was…you are understanding, it’s

4:36such a hierarchical organisation — whether that was because

4:40somebody above him had said, “you’ve got that capability, haven’t you?

4:45Offer it up” or whether he went direct?

4:48I don’t know. All I know is, I was told, monitoring foreign misinformation online

4:52because we need to go in and operate as part of this team.

4:56So what kind of tools and capabilities were you deploying to monitor this?

5:00What you were told

5:01as foreign disinformation may have become more domestic surveillance, but

5:05what were the tools, what was the capability,

5:06what were the methods you were using?

5:07So in terms of tools and capabilities, one of the main things is

5:12there is a specialist laptop, which is a kind of anonymised laptop

5:17that only runs through a kind of like the Onion Network.

5:21So, it doesn’t have a physical location, which is broadcastable.

5:24It operates at arm’s length, and it’s quite deniable and anonymised.

5:29So we had these specialised laptops that do exist within defence,

5:33they’re called Opus Terminals, which then require a level

5:37of training and specialisation which was done in-house.

5:40I say it was done in-house…the

5:43trainers were external and they were all from different information units.

5:47They were brought into the 77th brigade to do the training

5:50of all the different teams of which

5:53there are about five teams, three of whom were remote and…we didn’t,

5:56we never used sock puppets for any of our accounts.

6:01It was all just logging in as a guest to Twitter

6:04and doing like, what we would call a ‘sift’.

6:08So, just inputting a search term, whether it be “COVID-19”,

6:12“ventilators”, “Tory lies”, whatever.

6:15Whatever the search term

6:16was, you’d run the search term and you’d look at the top tweets.

6:20It was, there was no real training on how to do that.

6:24The only training really was around how to run Google searches,

6:28look for videos in foreign languages

6:31from just through YouTube, for instance, and just going on YouTube Russia

6:35rather than YouTube UK and it was very much feeling our way

6:39because it hadn’t been done before, which, I suppose in some respects is reassuring

6:44because the last thing I would want to do is feel like I’m

6:47participating in quite a common government activity.

6:51But yeah, there was very little specialist training.

6:54So you weren’t using things like Brandwatch,

6:56TweetDeck, sort of more advanced sifting tools?

6:58Initially TweetDeck was something we were told about

7:02and something that we could use.

7:04As the task developed, we found out that really

7:07what we were doing was getting passed down from the higher organisation,

7:11getting passed down the search terms we were going to use.

7:14All they wanted to see was how many times the search times were used, accounts

7:18that were, that were retweeting the same thing regularly

7:23and really just

7:23putting those together onto a PowerPoint presentation and sending them on.

7:26So, you said about search terms being used.

7:29Can you tell us a bit about the

7:31instructions you got, sort of, whether they were from the Cabinet Office

7:34or from your own superiors, what instructions did you receive

7:38and what was the output after your work of the day?

7:42So, there would be two different ways of doing it.

7:45So, one thing you would do is, and initially there was there was no

7:49there was no guidance, so it was just find foreign misinformation online

7:53and so we just had to generate our own search times

7:57and we would just be searching “COVID-19”, “death rate”, or whatever.

8:03You just type in the search terms, see what came up

8:06and anything

8:07that was essentially reflecting poorly on the Government or anything

8:11that was negative really to Boris Johnson, the administration or anyone like that.

8:16You’d take a note of it, put it on the on the slide deck,

8:19if you like, and then send that on.

8:23So then if the higher authority then saw

8:26there was an interesting thread in there that they wanted to pull at,

8:30so if there were any hashtags within that snapshot of someone’s profile

8:30that they might want to explore, they would then be sent back to the teams.

8:39Also, there was stuff that was generated

8:43that may have

8:43been generated by the other teams and sent back down to us.

8:46But there was stuff that was sent down to us from up from above as well.

8:50So, one of the first things that was sent down to us very early

8:53on was ventilators, because that was…you remember?

8:57when it was all about ventilation back in the day?

9:06That was handed down to us

9:06and we were expected to look into that and report any incidences.

9:08It was a bit of you identifying things of interest

9:11and some of it came from, top down?

9:13That’s right.

9:14You mentioned sort of it being about, Conservatives and Boris Johnson.

9:18Was there any guidance or kind of official instruction

9:22that anything reflects badly on the government should be included,

9:24or was it more

9:25a wink and a nudge and informal like…this is what you should be doing?

9:29Yeah, nothing is…there was no direction and there was no overt…this

9:34is…“*wink, wink*, we don’t want to know anything about Boris Johnson.”

9:38It wasn’t even that overt.

9:40But it, very quickly you would, if you sent up something about,

9:45you know, Tory lies, then that might come back down to you

9:48the next day and it’s like, “yeah, yeah, focus, focus on that”

9:53and very quickly you’d have big thematic headings

9:57which you were expected to look into and that…very soon…If

10:00you’re constantly being told “that’s good, that’s good” on a certain line,

10:05then you tend

10:05to send more of that stuff up because you want to be told “that’s good”

10:09rather than “you’re wasting your time” and it very quickly became apparent that

10:13it was more to do with sentiment analysis about the current administration.

10:17So you basically found that they you said they were responding

10:21well when you flagged stuff that was critical of the government,

10:24of the Conservatives and that was returned back to you for further investigation.

10:28Right, and when it

10:31seemed like the Government were doing better in vaccination

10:34or when it seemed like the Government were doing better in getting ventilators,

10:39they were very keen on seeing what the public response to that was.

10:42So all of a sudden it became apparent that Russia or China

10:46aren’t going to be saying, “well done for, for the respirators”,

10:49sorry, for the ventilators. They’re going to be doing negative.

10:53So, when you’re looking for

10:53positive messages, you know that you’re no longer looking at foreign states

10:57misinformation, you’re looking at the public.

11:00Yeah.

11:00So, this was a big thing when the 77th’s involvement with the

11:02Cabinet Office came out in The Times, the Ministry of Defence

11:06said, “we are not directing this capability at British citizens.”

11:10Was that a true statement?

11:11I couldn’t say…I mean, I don’t know.

11:15I really don’t know what they’re thinking

11:19or who said it, but from my perspective, I think they could justifiably say

11:24that they weren’t directing it because they weren’t telling us, you know,

11:27specifically, “yeah, we, we want to know what people think of the Government”.

11:30But, when you’re getting a positive, when you’re getting positive feedback

11:35and all you’re doing is looking from my perspective, what I thought I was

11:40doing was looking at the British public and reporting back sentiment analysis.

11:45Then you can kind of direct it without directing it. If you see what I mean.

11:47So, you think a lot of your work was surveilling the British public?

11:52On a personal level, very early on, I would always say to the fellow team

11:56members, whatever happens, whatever happens during this,

11:59you have to act in line with your own conscience.

12:02Because, if we’re doing stuff that is illegal, it’s only going to be

12:06you that’s going to be judged on that and I mean, literally judged, do you know?

12:11In a court of law, potentially.

12:15So, you can’t rely on saying, “well,

12:17I was directed to.” So, I was very cautious

12:22that I acted in line with my morals

12:24and if I thought what I was doing was really reporting on a scared lady

12:28in Solihull who was worried about, justifiably worried ‘cause she’d

12:32been worried by the press and the Government.

12:34So what safeguards were there to stop you or colleagues who perhaps, were

12:39less bothered about their conscience surveilling the British public?

12:42Were there safeguards in place?

12:43Were you told that there was a legal line between who you could surveil

12:47and who you couldn’t?

12:48And then how effective were the safeguards?

12:51So, we were given training on the legal side of things and

12:55we were told very much what we could do

12:58and what we could couldn’t do when we were looking at people online.

13:00So, one of the things we were told

13:02was you can’t really run a developed search on somebody.

13:05So, you can run a generic sift, you know, along a search term.

13:10But…so if you can’t really click into someone’s profile more than, say,

13:15you couldn’t go back and start looking at all of their all of their tweets,

13:17because then that’s really you’re targeting them and you’re developing it.

13:22You then can’t the next day search for that person specifically

13:25by Twitter handle or by name, because then that is specifically a targeted search.

13:30So, I don’t doubt that we, that what we did was legal

13:34and right in that respect but, I know that

13:37some of the more lusty members of the team who are very keen to to see the project

13:42succeed, would then subsequently, if they were on Twitter,

13:46when they went back home that evening, would go on their own personal profile,

13:50look into that person and see what their history was about, that sort of thing.

13:54Yeah, and were there any red lines you were sort of made clear

13:57that this person is so obviously British, we can’t kind of look at them

14:01even in a sift or, was it pretty much fair game in the sense that anyone could be

14:06in there and be put a slide deck and passed on?

14:09Anyone.

14:10Anyone, yeah, and there were times when I said, but,

14:15I would just reiterate to people I was on shift with, where

14:18I would say to them, “are we all sure that what we are doing is…”

14:23or maybe I would say, “I think what you need to do is make sure

14:26from your perspective that we aren’t just reporting on, you know,

14:30that scared person in Solihull, rather than misinformation”

14:34and there wasn’t really any…later as the task developed, we got a couple

14:40we got

14:40a couple of people who came onto the team because the team was constantly changing,

14:44because it was quite intense and quite long shifts you know?

14:47We’ve got people who actually thought, “do you know what?

14:50there’s probably a better way of finding foreign misinformation online

14:53rather than just doing these sifts which seem to throw up,

14:57you know, scared people.” and there were times when I saw people

15:00putting people onto slideshows and it was like, you know, that profile

15:04was maybe LabourChic03, you know,

15:08#FuckBorisJohnson or something, you know?

15:11and I thought, you know, that’s not much, that’s not a very good sock puppet if it,

15:16because it’s, you know, like it could be a bit more anonymous

15:19and there were times when I thought it just doesn’t add up, you know?

15:23and so, undoubtedly some

15:26got through, I think.

15:28Are you able to find any examples of kind of

15:31specific terms you passed down to look at?

15:33Or would that be too revealing?

15:35Some of the reasons I said “ventilators” is because I remember that that was a hot

15:40button topic at the time and that was passed down to us.

15:43Now, where that came from, I don’t know.

15:46I suspect it might have come up from one of the teams then back down to us.

15:51But I would say the majority of the stuff that came down to us

15:54was threads that we had sent up,

15:58and then they said, you know,

16:01pull on that bit a bit more.

16:01So, I say most of the stuff was actually came up from the from the teams and, but

16:07the ventilators one definitely did come back down to us.

16:11Definitely did, and that was very much of interest

16:15because that that was seen as a really good news story that, you know,

16:19that it seemed to come from the public.

16:21The demand seemed to come from the public, obviously stoked by the newspapers,

16:26and they really wanted to get

16:27that in the newspapers that we were doing great things with the procurement.

16:31Can you briefly describe what sentiment analysis is for, so,

16:37people generally understand what it is?

16:41Measurement of affect is far harder to do.

16:44One of the things we do is, we do sentiments analysis, which is,

16:48what are your perceptions and a very basic way of doing that

16:53on social media is what we were doing with the 77th Brigade,

16:57which is literally just reporting back what people are saying about “X”,

17:01Boris Johnson, the Government, ventilators, you know?

17:05and that that is a very, and this shows really

17:09the lack of sophistication of the 77th Brigade and our response to

17:15the COVID-19 response, which was,

17:18we were doing very labour-intensive measurements of affect.

17:22We could have done things far more efficiently

17:24by using the tools at our disposal, but no one knew how to use them.

17:28So you were pretty much just saying, this is a positive tweet,

17:31this is a negative tweet.

17:31You weren’t using some of the tools that are out there

17:33that use AI to say this is anger or disgust or joy,

17:37it’s pretty much positive, negative, sorted by yourself and others?

17:41That’s right.

17:42Yeah, and you know, as you say, as you know,

17:46there are civilian products that are open source

17:49and available where you can analyse sentiment,

17:51but these weren’t used and it was very much from your perspective

17:54as an intelligence analyst, what is this person saying about X?

17:59Then maybe

18:01do as

18:01many as you could fit onto a slideshow presentation,

18:05which might take ten, twelve, and then you’d send that off

18:08and it would get collated at a high level and then sent on to the

18:13Cabinet Office. As you said,

18:15these slides would be sent to the Cabinet Office, potentially sent back

18:18for further sort of intelligence gathering on certain topics.

18:22Do you know what the Cabinet Office ended up,

18:23or if you have any idea what the Cabinet Office did with it,

18:25what they ended up doing with these kind of slides, or were you not told that?

18:29No, and very much it was at arm’s length within the military, you know,

18:33you don’t really step out of your lane and if you do, you know,

18:38you’re told in no uncertain terms to stay in your lane.

18:41People build these Chinese walls so you’re not supposed to go into the other

18:49pond.

18:49You know, there’s a big fish in that pond who will gobble

18:51you up, so very much, you know, there was no communication

18:55between our sub-units and the Cabinet Office.

18:58That was very much held at an arm’s length and some would own that relationship

19:05with the Cabinet Office and you would have to specifically—

19:08not that we ever did— but you would have to specifically

19:12request authority to liaise directly.

19:15There’s this clunky term, but they call it ‘DIRLAUTH’.

19:19It’s an abbreviation.

19:20But, you would request that, they would get denied and they say “no,

19:27use the chain of command” and that’s like classic army stuff.

19:32So, anything that we sent on went directly to

19:34the team leader.

19:35The team leader would send that directly to the kind of capability leader

19:40and the capability leader would send that on to the

19:43not even to the Cabinet Office, to the liaison officer

19:46within the Cabinet Office for them to show that to the Cabinet Office.

19:50Yeah, so, in the really great piece you’ve written for our report that’s

19:53coming out soon, you say that, basically,

19:56unless someone had a real name and “I am British” in their

20:01bio, they were essentially fair game.

20:04Do you think, sort of that kind of willingness to work in the grey

20:09was concerning that led to a lot of domestic surveillance?

20:13It’s concerning from a personal point of view.

20:17But, from a professional point of view,

20:19you would have to expect someone operating a sock puppet account

20:23to at least make an effort to appear to be British.

20:27So, you would, you could say that’s kind of spy craft,

20:32you know, that they would try and blend in in that respect.

20:36So, I find it hard to be critical of

20:40our failure to kind of filter those people out

20:44because you would expect to be working with people

20:46who are at least maintaining the presence of being British.

20:49So, with everything you said,

20:51is it fair to say there is no way that with sifting Twitter

20:54you could effectively not screen British citizens as part of that work?

21:02Yeah, I would say that’s impossible.

21:04The way that we were working, it would be impossible not to also

21:08to pick up British citizens at the same time as almost accidentally,

21:12if you like, picking up the occasional bot or sock puppet.

21:16But the way of working, which we set up was so accidental that I think

21:21necessarily it was very difficult for us to pick up those foreign misinformation

21:27sock puppets or misinformation

21:30bot farms or, I think it would be very difficult

21:33to pick up those, but very easy to pick up sentiments analysis.

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