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Are Zionists at the heart of the Tory bullying scandal?
Yvonne Ridley
A political scandal which has rocked the British government, forcing the resignation of a Conservative minister, also reveals the powerful influence of pro-Israel Zionists at play.
Grant Shapps has already quit his post of international development minister after damning evidence emerged of bullying following the death of a young political activist. It seems that the former Conservative Party chair failed to act over allegations of bullying, sexual harassment, drug taking and the blackmailing of some MPs, according to media reports. The focus of the allegations is Mark Clarke, who was appointed by Shapps as the director of the Road Trip election campaign last year. The appointment is said by some media reports “to have baffled many in the party.”
While Middle East political observers may regard the fall out as nothing more than a domestic spat, they couldn’t be more wrong, because snippets of information are beginning to come out which reveal the dirty tricks of Zionist influences at the heart of David Cameron’s troubled government.
Former Cabinet minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, once regarded as the most powerful Muslim figure in British politics, was targeted ruthlessly by Tory bullies in an unprecedented, vindictive campaign to have her marginalised. Despite standing up to the bullies, Warsi’s pleas for back-up and help were ignored by Shapps, leaving her even more isolated.
The campaign against her was unleashed after she resigned from the British government during the height of last year’s Israeli military offensive against the people of the Gaza Strip. Warsi was almost immediately catapulted into political oblivion after quitting her Cabinet post over the Conservative-led coalition government’s foreign policy on Palestine and its refusal to condemn Israeli actions during the 51 day war in which hundreds of Palestinian children and their mothers were killed.
In her resignation letter Warsi wrote: “I always said that long after life in politics I must be able to live with myself for the decisions I took or the decisions I supported. By staying in Government at this time I do not feel I can be sure of that.”
Her principled stand was explained further in an interview with award-winning journalist Mehdi Hassan where she explained: “The British government can only play a constructive role in solving the Middle East crisis if it is an honest broker, and at the moment I do not think it is.”
At the time of her resignation she tweeted: “With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister & tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on #Gaza.”
With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister & tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on #Gaza
— Sayeeda Warsi (@SayeedaWarsi) August 5, 2014
As far as political observers were concerned, Sayeeda Warsi had virtually withdrawn from British politics but a series of tweets at the centre of the bullying storm which led to Shapps’ resignation tells a different story.
The original bullying claims were made in a letter penned by Elliott Johnson before the young Conservative took his own life. They centre on the Tory Party’s youth wing and, in particular, senior campaign activist Mark Clarke. While Clarke denies any accusations of wrongdoing it has now emerged that Warsi was also targeted by him on social networks when he implied that she was anti-Semitic following her principled resignation over Israel’s war on Gaza.
The two had clashed previously during Clarke’s failed 2010 General Election campaign when he stood as a candidate in Tooting against Labour’s Sadiq Khan. After that election, as the then Conservative Party chair, Warsi established a candidates’ committee to rule on whether problematic candidates could stand again for the party. Clarke was removed from the candidate list.
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