Rebecca Long-Bailey sacked.

[55palfers]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8459887/S...

Hmm.

Wouldn't have expected that.

[worsy]

Well well well

BBC link

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53183085

Acted very swiftly but reason appears a little overly sensitive. Maybe that whole issue has become so toxic for Labour.

[bitchstewie]

Give the anointed successor to Corbyn and his toxic legacy a top job and then just sit back and wait.

Didn't take long.

[s1962a]

Good, there is no place for religious intolerance in any mainstream political party.

[chemistry]

Bye bye RLB...I can’t say I’m sorry to see you go.

Hopefully many other weak minded Corbynistas will soon follow you out of the door.

[abzmike]

Also usefully highlights that party leaders can take swift action to remove ministers, shadow and otherwise. Handy day to point that out.

[Hippea]

Keir acted before this even became a story, a very clever move.

[anonymous-user]

s1962a said:

Good, there is no place for religious intolerance in any mainstream political party.

Where was the religious intolerance in the tweet/article?

[carinaman]

Like Jenrick she did a law conversion course after her degree. Some Lawyers aren't the sharpest tools in the box.

[Fatball]

What a shame.

[s1962a]

Argleton said:

s1962a said:

Good, there is no place for religious intolerance in any mainstream political party.

Where was the religious intolerance in the tweet/article?

She was sacked because she linked to an anti semitic article. Are you saying the article wasn't anti semitic?

[PeteinSQ]

s1962a said:

She was sacked because she linked to an anti semitic article. Are you saying the article wasn't anti semitic?

Anti-semitism is nothing to do with religion. You could ask Hitler about that if he was still around.

[anonymous-user]

s1962a said:

Argleton said:

s1962a said:

Good, there is no place for religious intolerance in any mainstream political party.

Where was the religious intolerance in the tweet/article?

She was sacked because she linked to an anti semitic article. Are you saying the article wasn't anti semitic?

Where was the anti-semitism in the article?

[s1962a]

Argleton said:

s1962a said:

Argleton said:

s1962a said:

Good, there is no place for religious intolerance in any mainstream political party.

Where was the religious intolerance in the tweet/article?

She was sacked because she linked to an anti semitic article. Are you saying the article wasn't anti semitic?

Where was the anti-semitism in the article?

You're asking the same question again. She was sacked because she linked to an anti semitic article, and I said there is no place for religious intolerance in mainstream political parties. Do you disagree with this?

[s1962a]

PeteinSQ said:

s1962a said:

She was sacked because she linked to an anti semitic article. Are you saying the article wasn't anti semitic?

Anti-semitism is nothing to do with religion. You could ask Hitler about that if he was still around.

https://www.adl.org/anti-semitism

site said:

The belief or behavior hostile toward Jews just because they are Jewish. It may take the form of religious teachings that proclaim the inferiority of Jews, for instance, or political efforts to isolate, oppress, or otherwise injure them. It may also include prejudiced or stereotyped views about Jews.

[anonymous-user]

s1962a said:

Argleton said:

s1962a said:

Argleton said:

s1962a said:

Good, there is no place for religious intolerance in any mainstream political party.

Where was the religious intolerance in the tweet/article?

She was sacked because she linked to an anti semitic article. Are you saying the article wasn't anti semitic?

Where was the anti-semitism in the article?

You're asking the same question again. She was sacked because she linked to an anti semitic article, and I said there is no place for religious intolerance in mainstream political parties. Do you disagree with this?

You're not answering my question. Point out the anti-semitism parts in the article. You said it, stand by it.

[s1962a]

Argleton said:

s1962a said:

Argleton said:

s1962a said:

Argleton said:

s1962a said:

Good, there is no place for religious intolerance in any mainstream political party.

Where was the religious intolerance in the tweet/article?

She was sacked because she linked to an anti semitic article. Are you saying the article wasn't anti semitic?

Where was the anti-semitism in the article?

You're asking the same question again. She was sacked because she linked to an anti semitic article, and I said there is no place for religious intolerance in mainstream political parties. Do you disagree with this?

You're not answering my question. Point out the anti-semitism parts in the article. You said it, stand by it.

Why are you being so aggressive and not listening? What I said was "there is no place for religious intolerance in any mainstream political party". If you want to discuss the article itself, go ahead and explain your position.

[dieselgrunt]

it's annoyed John McDonnell which is good enough for me

[worsy]

Actually she retweeted a link to a video interview by a long standing labour activist, who, amongst the pro Corbyn love message suggested that the US Police learnt how to kneel on people's necks from the Israeli Secret Service.

I don't believe that constitutes antisemitism, it may be regarded as anti Zionist but depends on the tone of course.

Edited by worsy on Thursday 25th June 16:44

[2xChevrons]

Argleton said:

Where was the anti-semitism in the article?

This is what I asked in the Keir Starmer thread. All I got was that you had to 'read between the lines' of what Peake said to see the anti-semitism.

Peake said that the US police had learnt the knee-on-airway restraint technique from the IDF. That's it. The Independent originally cited an Amnesty International report confirming that the IDF does provide training to American police departments. The Indy then revised the article, removing the Amnesty citation and replacing it with a statement from the IDF saying that the pressure-on-airway technique was not a 'tactic or protocol' they used or taught.

It seems that all that happened is that Peake made a factually incorrect statement about exactly what the IDF teaches US police departments. At worst she said that the IDF taught the US police the technique that killed George Floyd.

I'm struggling to see where the anti-semitism is here. It's a criticism of the IDF or, more broadly, the relationship between the IDF and the American state.

Conflating 'Israel' with 'Jewish people', and thereby making any criticism of the state a criticism of the people, is literally anti-semitic in itself.