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12 October

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On this day in 2018, Labour MP Margaret Hodge was met with protests when she visited the Scottish Parliament at the invitation of fellow Labour Friends of Israel member, Ken McIntosh MSP. Both of them have demonstrably lied in making false allegations of antisemitism against those who don’t share their support for Israel and aggressive wars in general. Hodge also covered up child abuse as leader of Islington Council, and attacked the victims for which she was finally forced to apologise and pay damages.

 

 

السجل الخسيس لمؤيدي إسرائيل متصيدي الفرص الثمينة

12 أكتوبر

في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2018، قوبلت نائبة حزب العمل مارجريت هودج بالاحتجاجات عندما زارت البرلمان الأسكوتلندي بدعوة من زميلها كين ماكينتوش عضو حزب العمال في البرلمان الأسكوتلندي وعضو في تجمع اصدقاء إسرائيل في الحزب. أظهر كلاهما بشكل واضح الكذب في تقديم افتراءات مزيفة حول معاداة السامية ضد كل من لا يشاركهم دعم إسرائيل وحروبها العدوانية بشكل عام. كما قامت هودج كرئيس لمجلس ازلنجتون بالتستر على قضية إساءة معاملة الأطفال، وهاجمت الضحايا ولكنها أجبرت أخيرًا على الاعتذار ودفع الأضرار لهم.

At the Scottish Parliament on Friday 12 October, Margaret Hodge and Ken McIntosh discussed Hodge’s “experience of antisemitism both inside and outside of the Labour Party”.  A well-received SPSC leaflet to attendees detailed Hodge's and McIntosh's history of lies and smears of Palestine supporters and their defence of Israel's mass killings of Palestinian children.

It also reminded attendees of Hodge's attempt to silence other voices campaigning for justice; whistleblowers who exposed massive child sexual abuse in Islington Council care homes from 1973 to 1994, while Hodge was Chair of the Housing Committee and then Council Leader from 1982 to 1992. Well aware of the history of child sex abuse in the care homes for which she was responsible, Hodge did nothing to protect the children being predated by a paedophile ring. Knowing this, Tony Blair later made Hodge UK Minister for Children.

Hodge did not rerspond to the leaflet in her invitation-only talk, chaired by McIntosh inside the Scottish Parliament.

Extract from leaflet:
"They are both members of Israeli Embassy front group, Labour Friends of Israel, recently shown on Al Jazeera’s documentary The Lobby to be in receipt of largesse to the tune of £1 million from the Israeli Embassy. An Israeli Embassy political officer is filmed discussing how to “take down” certain MPs as well as describing his plans to set up a Labour Friends of Israel youth wing.

"Pro-war, pro-Israel Margaret Hodge accuses supporters of Palestine in the Labour Party of bringing that party into disrepute. Her own disgraceful cover up of child abuse as leader of Islington Council, her abuse of the victims for which she was finally forced to apologise and pay damages, makes her unfit to appear on any public platform, especially where she appears in support of Israel’s ongoing and widely reported abuse of Palestinian children. Foul-mouthed Margaret Hodge has a shameful record of covering up sexual abuse and smearing the victims who spoke up; she is reprising that role by falsely accusing of anti-semitism those who stand for Palestine.  This intimidation will fail as did her efforts to smear and intimidate victims of sexual abuse in Islington."

Hodge cursed at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in parliament and called him "a fucking antisemite and a racist". The Party initiated a disciplinary investigation of the incident, with a spokesperson saying that "The rules of the Parliamentary Labour Party are quite clear, that colleagues have to treat each other with respect and not bring the party into disrepute and that is why action will be taken." The investigation was terminated following fears that MPs would resign had it continued. A Labour spokesperson said that Hodge "expressed regret" for her remarks: however, Hodge said that there were "no apologies". Hodge said that the prospect of an investigation into her planned and public cursing of Jeremy Corbyn had made her think about "what it felt like to be a Jew in Germany in the 30s", a remark described by one commentator as "deranged hyperbole". Hodge  proposed that the Labour Party should close down any constituency that passed motions critical of the IHRA bogus definition of anti-semitism.