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It's clear that there are three groups of thought regarding the suspension of Corbyn, among those who were previously part of his coalition.
The first group, embodied by Owen Jones/Ellie Mae O'Hagen/Rachel Shabi - they're genuinely tired of Corbyn, they're not even interested
The first group, embodied by Owen Jones/Ellie Mae O'Hagen/Rachel Shabi - they're genuinely tired of Corbyn, they're not even interested
in defending him as an individual anymore. It's just condemnation, choosing to build a project that isn't just continuity Corbyn without the man himself, but something ideologically divergent, particularly on issues of imperialism, and much weaker on Palestinian rights
The second group of people are those are sympathetic to Corbyn as individual, on a personal level, but still desperate for unity and would rather Corbyn return through a series of grovelling apologies Keir Starmer. People like McDonnel, those in the socialist campaign group
who are too scared to either fight Starmer or articulate an argument of solidarity with Palestinian voices. And finally, there's the group of people who are still enthusiastic about Corbyn, his values, who believe his statement of the EHRC report was proportional and justified.
This group comprises most of the online left and it's found itself with essentially no allies in the parliamentary Labour party or the media, with a few great exception like Andrew Feinstein.
It's truly depressing that the movement behind Corbyn, though no longer unified in one place like the Labour party, has so much energy and yet there are few figures in the media brave enough to represent our views. The bullying and intimidation around antisemitism is very
intense. The unanimity of opinion in the media on IRHA, for example, made it almost impossible for someone to make a fair minded critique of a very contentious definition. Because if you're almost the first person to state something you paint a massive target on your back.
It's collective cowardice and it makes us so much weaker. I hope soon we find advocates in the media (I've given up on Parliamentant) who can actually articulate what we believe.
