By resigning from the Labour Party, Louise Ellman has avoided facing de-selection by her Liverpool, Riverside Constituency Labour Party.

In doing so, she has lashed out at Jeremy Corbyn, holding him responsible for the alleged widespread anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.

For Christ’s sake, Jeremy, kick back, giving the lie to this nonsense.  In response to every such attack, the Party leadership takes the knock-back without retaliation,  thus giving credence to the accusations.

I have just read  a recently-published book, Bad News For Labour,  by  five academics,  Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg,  Antony Lerman and David Miller in which they clinically analyse  the media reports of Labour anti-Semitism and the interviews and articles by various participants in the campaign of vilification, including Margaret Hodge, Alan Johnson and Louise Ellman.

Private Eye  frequently exposes the widespread practice of Fleet Street hacks in copying or plagiarising one another’s stories, often repeating the factual errors and misspellings.  Thus, we have the propagation of fake news and plain lies, which has been so beneficial for Trump and Johnson and the likes of Margaret Hodge.  The public all too eagerly fall for what they want to hear and thus become fodder for the nationalism and demagogy of the latest breed of despots.  Those who consider themselves well educated, intelligent and well-informed may equally fall for it.  If they read newspapers  –  increasingly an IF  – they do so uncritically.  If they turn on the radio or TV news, they give it only half an ear and absorb subliminally the stuff the media wishes to propagate.

The Party should shout it loudly that almost a third of cases of reported anti-Semitism  of members have been dismissed because there was no case to answer. In other words, the accused were innocent. And those decisions were made by the enlarged investigations unit and its  independent specialist barristers.

Every time Margaret Hodge opens her mouth, shout it from the roof-tops that in her dossier of  200 accusations of anti-Semitism  just 20 were found to relate to people who were Party members. Was she being careless, or just too happy to grossly  inflate the problem?

Will the campaign come to an end?

The authors come to the conclusion that, “If the motive is to displace Jeremy Corbyn because of the internal politics of the Party, then the conflict will go on. For different reasons it will continue if the intention is to re-shape the definition of anti-Semitism  to argue that current movements such as BDS and contemporary criticisms of Israel are illegitimate.”  They continue: “the civil war in the party … is unlikely to recede until there is a greater correspondence between the purpose and beliefs of the PLP, the leadership and the mass of Party members. This is unlikely to happen until either a great part of the membership leaves, or there is reselection of MPs at local level.”

Today, on every BBC news broadcast we hear Louise Ellman’s poison, with no rebuff from the Party.

Unlike the authors of the above book, I feel free to speak it as it is. It is all lies, concocted to turn the Labour Party back to the right.

I am angry at the leadership.  By not de-bunking the accusers and their accusations, by being too apologetic, by conceding too much ground, they are allowing the organisation of which I am a member, to which I give money, to be labelled as anti-Semitic.  That label besmirches every member, including me, clearly implying that I support an  anti-Semitic organisation and so I am angry.