From Fiyaz Mughal at Haaretz - 'Pro-Palestinian' Jeremy Corbyn Has Never Really Cared About Muslim Suffering.
In Kosovo, for example:
Serb dictator Slobodan Milosevic and his paramilitary forces had already carried out the massacre of 8000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, and the ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims – and had faced no concerted Western challenge.
The Clinton administration and its European allies could see that Milosevic was planning the same genocidal strategy against ethnic Kosovar Muslims, simply for being Muslims and of Turkic heritage. Already heavily discriminated against by the state, they had been purged from their jobs, pushing them into a guerilla-type insurgency led the Kosovo Liberation Army against Serb forces.
The response to the insurgency from Milosevic was the forcible deportation of Kosovar Muslims, which took place from January to June 1999. Over 800,000 Kosovar Muslims were displaced; the aim was clear - to ethnically cleanse the area, much as Milosevic had brutally changed the ethnic landscape of Bosnia through violence and degradation. It was his modus operandi.
Kosovar Muslim men, women and children were murdered in a systematic manner; hundreds of people disappeared, only to be found dumped in shallow graves with gunshot wounds and brutal fresh scars – evidence of torture. All of the indicators demonstrated a genocide in the making and that very prediction was documented at the time by groups such as the well-respected Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
The NATO alliance decided to act, to prevent further terrible civilian bloodshed and perhaps also to atone for their passivity during the Bosnian genocide. The March-June 1999 NATO air strikes were a precise and measured attempt to stop Milosevic in his tracks.
Fast-forward five years. In December 2004, Jeremy Corbyn signed up to the parliamentary Early Day Motion 492, which highlighted the "devastating human cost" of the "so-termed humanitarian invasion of Kosovo."
The motion based its claims on an article by reporter John Pilger in the New Statesman which pivoted on a comparison of the "great…lies…deployed by Clinton and Blair in their grooming of public opinion for an illegal, unprovoked attack on a European country" with those that led to the Iraq war.
The piece ended with a dismissal of the then-ongoing trial of Milosevic for war crimes as a "show trial" and "farce" of a man whose only crime was his refusal to "surrender sovereignty" to the demands of global finance organizations. Needless to say, Pilger, together with fellow journalist Seymour Hersh, is also a leading light in the Assad apologist camp.
The motion "congratulated John Pilger on his expose of [a] fraudulent justification for intervening in a genocide that never really existed in Kosovo." ...
Why would Corbyn be such a depressingly obvious backer of this kind of revisionism and apologetics for the genocide of Muslims? As a confirmed anti-imperialist, Corbyn would have objected to NATO intervention and U.S. involvement in particular, despite the threatened murder of Muslims. Throw in the fact that there were close connections between Serbia and Russia.
Corbyn has never answered for his stance on Kosovo, nor has he acknowledged the mass displacement and systemic murders of Kosovar Muslims that took place.
Then there's Iran, where Jeremy happily worked for Press TV, mouthpiece for a regime which crushes any Muslims who dare to question the oppressive theocracy. And Syria of course....and Libya. The list goes on....