Now is the season for all good conspiracies to come to the aid of the party

I live a strangely conservative  with a small'c'. At as my want I waste every Sunday reading several newspapers, one is extremely reactionary, one is marginally reactionary and the other one is the O

Observer. Perhaps I should explain myself as to why I waste my Sundays reading such things as the Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Times. I really have no explanation, other than many years ago a friend told me that the Mail was as good as a comic and having grown up in Scotland with the Sunday Post I suppose I needed some light relief. The reason we get the Sunday Times is because for the rest of the week Marie does the Times crossword, Not a very good reason but sadly it's all got.

This Sunday all three papers displayed what can only be described as a conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories, if you think the world is being taken over by strange little alien creatures men may have obviously bought British national newspapers and are spewing their irrational theories of world domination to a gullible public.

It should be added that the BBC appears part of the alien empire, and here's one for those who scour blogs and twitter accounts for threats of violence and bullying let me make it clear that if I ever got the chance I would love to punch John Humphrys right in the mush. I expect the police who appear to masquerade as the cleaning agents  of all things naughty in the Labour Party may well turn up to get me. Thank Christ John Humphrys is not Jewish, otherwise who knows what will happen..

Of course the conspiracy that I'm talking about is that one bubbling in the Labour Party, it would appear that the party I was readmitted to about  15 months ago is a hotbed of vicious dangerous evil anti-Semitism. Round every corner and every dark smoky room there lurks a ferocious anti-Semites. At this point I better lay my cards firmly on the table,, but those who heard me say this before it's no surprise but when I was around 14 or so the first political activity I took part in when I first joined the Young Communist league was Street activity with the yellow star movement. That was inthose days and organisation made up of AJEX( the Association of Jewish ex-servicemen) the Young Communist league, the Young Socialists and young trade unionists. What we did in those wild and rough times was to bully, and intimidate, and disrupt public meetings. These were on street markets like Ridley Road East London and they were meetings organised by an outfit called the Union Movement (Nothing to do with trade unions) and organisation founded by Sir Oswald Mosley the leader of the wartime British union of Fascists. In the 1960s they were spreading their racist  aetiology on the streets of London, attacking Commonwealth migrants and the Jewish community in that part of London. What we did was simply prevent them speaking, and quite literally gave them no platform because we destroyed their platforms, their loudspeakers and their leaflets.

Today an awful lot of people talk about fighting anti-Semitism indeed they make an awful lot about fighting anti-Semitism, I don't remember many of them on the streets when we were physically fighting anti-Semites.

It is perhaps an interesting aside that when we were mobilised to get along  to a fascist rally we travelled in London black cabs driven by Jewish cabbies from the TGWU. In those cabs There was always lively discussion and frequently we talked about the issue of Israel and Palestine, the discussions were often heated and on occasion I got a smack in the mouth from a Zionist comrade whoDidn't quite agree with my analysis. However when the cab stopped and we confronted our common enemy all disagreements from the cab were forgotten, we knew who the real enemy was.

What is distressing me if the fact that too many people cannot distinguish between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Of course it's not that simple and I very much doubt if many of the founding fathers of Zionism would find themselves in agreement with what the government of Israel and the religious parties of Israel are doing today. Many of the founding fathers were practical socialists and they were internationalists in the best sense. It is impossible after the genocide of World War II not to support a homeland for the Jews of Europe, perhaps the issueIs how Israel was created and by whom. That is however old history and we are where we are, and the only way forward for everyone is the two state solutionThat amongst others Jeremy Corbyn endorses and argues for, as long as millions of Palestinian people are dispossessed and remain in hideous camps  as refugeesfor decadesThen there will never be peace. I am still waiting, as the flames within the Labour Party off and higher and higher for just one of those MPs and peers to criticise the state of Israel for the events on the Israeli- Gaza border over the last few days.

There is without doubt some dangerous anti-Semitism in some parts of the Labour Party, that is not new, Ernest Bevin was no friend of the Jewish people. All my life I have always known on whose side I'm on, I will fight anti-Semitism and every other manifestation of racism that rears its head anywhere.

But I will never under any circumstances join a demonstration against the leader of the Labour Party with the likes of Ian Paisley junior, and some of those evil Tory hypocrites. Can I remind you as I always do of the words in Ruthie Gorton's song" to understand oppression is to be a Jew-so free Palestine now"