Since then I've learned that Atzmon, a former Israeli soldier, is not confined to the jazz world. I am told that in various blogs and in speeches he has adopted antisemitic language. I wasn't aware of this until after I tweeted the petition.

On the left is Chris Williamson MP claiming Cyril Chilson should not have been expelled from the Labour Party for antisemitism.On the right is Cyril Chilson chatting to one of Britain's most notorious antisemites about "Jew funding" of The Tories. pic.twitter.com/BYVu3v8Iug

12. The time he defended the guy who ranted about Tesco's having Jewish blood.

Continually endorses Scott Nelson: suspended for delights, including but not limited to, saying "Tesco has Jewish Blood". Williamson publically denied Nelson said such a thing and then when shown that he had, waved it away, saying Nelson had apologised, basically get over it. 4/ pic.twitter.com/HNXFcif1Iv

After news surfaced about the goings on at Oxford University Labour Club - which included a Jewish student being summoned and told that Auschwitz was a "cash cow" - this was Williamsons response... 11/ pic.twitter.com/BOb26kgikL June 1, 2018





He is playing to a gallery of antisemites & the silence about this is deafening. After a recording comes out of NEC member Peter Willsman's calling antisemitism "manufactured" which refers to "Jewish Trump fanatics" - Williamson tweets his unconditional support.He is playing to a gallery of antisemites & the silence about this is deafening. pic.twitter.com/vWY3rt1jfm July 31, 2018

Then, in cahoots with Skwawkbox, fresh from their "Jewish War Against Corbyn" tweet and months of antagonism towards the Jewish community - Williamson actually starts trying to spin for Willsman. pic.twitter.com/rY7OqJ4rmm July 31, 2018





This is so egregious it's almost applaudable. In perhaps his worst piece of "Jew-baiting" the next day, Williamson doubles down, putting Willsman's name at the top.This is so egregious it's almost applaudable. pic.twitter.com/O4rxSAs8hj July 31, 2018

In response to Peter Willsman's comments about Jews, for which Momentum dropped him from the slate; Williamson "liked" this tweet from a well known Twitter account who regularly spreads antisemitic conspiracy theories. pic.twitter.com/KDzXVZ9KC3 November 14, 2018

A sample of the tweets Williamson like on his TL after he told Labour members to vote for Peter Willsman in response to his rant about Jewish Trump fanatics manufacturing antisemitism. pic.twitter.com/ZlqPl0LDOF November 14, 2018

With Miko Peled at #Lab18 - Peled made the papers at last year's Labour conference for comments which included his call for the no-platforming of Zionists (most Jews) in same manner as "Neo-Nazis" - he also has made other well publicised dodgy anti-Jewish statements. pic.twitter.com/NZEmdgZDqz September 29, 2018

This was in June, right in the middle of some of the worst violence in Nicaragua and just before Chris Williamson stood beside Vanessa Beeley. https://t.co/wxaiyzmNpo December 21, 2018



The other guests: 'What!'

Williamson: 'That situation will get far worse if there's a civil war.' Williamson: 'What are they going to say when hundreds of thousands of people are genuinely starving.'The other guests: 'What!'Williamson: 'That situation will get far worse if there's a civil war.' pic.twitter.com/oHIQYRzKi1 January 29, 2019

The real absolute BS doozy from Williamson is him claiming 'poor people turned out in huge numbers for Maduro is the elections last year'. The government's own electoral authority said turnout HALVED, experts believe it was actually half that again. pic.twitter.com/gME06We6HQ January 29, 2019

https://t.co/0VyJkxsYkE I see that Chris Williamson is promoting a venanalysis piece claiming that Venezuela is housing millions. When Maduro made the same claim 9 days ago I had some comments 👇 ht @Daniel_Sugarman January 14, 2019

As Chris Williamson has claimed on TV that "none other than" Jimmy Carter has endorsed Venezuela's elections, have a look at what the Carter Foundation said about the 2017 election: https://t.co/B8SUuknOak January 29, 2019

(As @willuminare points out, Chris Williamson has never said the words “Palestine” or “Palestinian” in a parliamentary debate, and the word “Palestinians” just once.) pic.twitter.com/jdWm19Ne0i February 28, 2019

I think the earliest time he did this was when he responded to a tweet by Ian Austin (son of a refugee from Hitler) about antisemitism in Oxford Uni Labour Club with a tweet about Israeli brutality. Switching from one topic to another is saying the racism concerns are trivial, and the raising of Israel, simply because the topic is Jews, is, well, racist, because it is associating Jewish students in Oxford with the crimes of the state thousands of miles away, simply because of common ethnicity. A bit like responding to a tweet about Islamophobia with a tweet about the Islamic Republic of Iran or responding to a tweet about anti-black racism with a tweet about Robert Mugabe.Later, when Pete Willsman's NEC candidacy was disowned by the left when a recording of an antisemitic rant by him in which he daubed Jews with being right-wing Trump supporters, Williamson defended Willsman.Willsman is not the only person with an antisemitism allegation who Williamson has stood by. Maybe some of these by themselves could be defended, but standing by all of them constitutes a pattern. Here he is standby Miko "people should be free to debate the Holocaust, yes or no" Peled:Anti-Nazis United has documented the many, many borderline (and worse) antisemitic accounts Williamson has promoted. "They vary between simple misanthropes, conspiracy theorists to the odd antisemite or 3+. Some are very happy in the company of neo-Nazis or promoting material from Holocaust denying propagandists. The common theme is that all express contempt for Jews in one way shape or form."One of the worst was Sonia Mata , a Holocaust denier who says the Talmud promotes paedophilia.Williamson is regularly on British and Russian media outlets defending governments like Maduro's in Latin America. One of the most jaw-dropping of such moments was in January this year, when Venezuelan starvation was so intense that thousands were fleeing the country daily, and Williamson said to the BBC that they were not "genuinely" starving.Another lie Williamson told the BBC was that the poor voted for Maduro in big numbers in the last election.Another was that Maduro is housing the poor.And a final lie Williamson told on TV is that "none other than Jimmy Carter" endorsed Maduro's election.As one blogger puts it , "Williamson promoted pro-Corbyn media outlet Skwawkbox, who wrote about the ‘ Jewish war on Corbyn ’. IPSO, the press watchdog ruled they are officially a fake news outlet . As well as writing about antisemitic conspiracies, Skwawkbox were also accused of bullying MPs who attended the ‘enough is enough’ rally against antisemitism . Williamson calls Skwawkbox ‘ superb ’." He is also of course a regular with The Canary , which is at least as bad I said I wouldn't include things related to Israel-Palestine, but I thought this was both minor and telling. In 2017, a week after he called allegations of antisemitism in the party "proxy wars and bullshit", Williamson tweeted a fake Mandela quote , and then later deleted it. The quote itself - comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa - is not actually antisemitic. But why it's telling is that it shows the milieu where Williamson moves, a world where fake news and fake memes circulate. Williamson, who has f lip-flopped from Blairism to Corbynism and embraces all sorts of cranky positions, lacks the political education or critical imagination to distinguish truth from fact or to recognise antisemitism.As I've strayed on to Israel/Palestine, it's worth saying that, while Williamson's defenders say he is being attacked because he supports Palestine, Williamson is not recognised as a pro-Palestinian activist by most people who really are active in Palestine solidarity work.I'll leave you with Williamson's endorsement by Nick Griffin, Nazi former leader of the British National Party. Obviously, you can't blame Williamson for this, but you have to ask why Williamson has become a poster boy for fascism . A Labour Party with Williamson in it, which Nick Griffin calls "a clean, radical party", is a party unbearable for Jews and anti-racists to be near. If you think Williamson should be in the Labour Party, that's what you are supporting.