Anti-Semitism and the British Left.

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Here they go again. Why does the British Left have such an antisemitism problem?


Labour fringe speaker's Holocaust remarks spark new antisemitism row

A senior Labour MP has said he is shocked at some of the anti-Semitic tweets by party members that come before its disciplinary panel. John Cryer said some of what is written "makes your hair stand up", adding: "This stuff is redolent of the 1930s."

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DonkeyApple said:

Messy subject. Anti-Zionism in theory should be wholly separate from Antisemitism but both sides have muddied the water somewhat.

The Antisemites have tried to hide behind the Anti-Zionism argument and the Zionists have forced Anti-Zionism to be seen as the same as Antisemitism in the Western media so as to stifle the debate.

That’s a good point.

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Have been reading more about the ‘fringe speaker’ mentioned in the opening post. He has an interesting history - he’s ex special forces in the IDF. His father was a general in the IDF and his grandfather a signatory of Israel’s founding Declaration of Independence. Miko Peled, who still identifies as a Jew, now holds a lot of anti Israeli views however he can hardly be anti-Semitic, or can he? Many within the Israeli establishment still think he’s anti-Semitic. For example, this former IDF spokesman. The lines really have been blurred.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AviMayer

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Andrew Neil's speech on the trend of left-wing anti-Semitism at the Holocaust Educational Trust annual dinner yesterday.

https://vimeo.com/238584380

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techiedave said:

A57 HSV said:

No surprise:

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/corbyn-says-no-...

Emily Thornberry is going instead. I'd love to be there. I'd help her with the dessert.

Ken must have been unavailable.

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Corbyn turns down an invitation for an official dinner with the Israeli PM, who whatever you think of him is still the leader of one of our closest allies.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jeremy-corbyn-s...

Yet at the same time he mixes, in parliament, with the group below.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/antiradical-act...

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johnxjsc1985 said:

did I just hear that Harriet Harman told a joke about getting 100 Jewish people into a mini. I won't do the punch line because its just outrageous and whatever context she pretends to refer to she is way way out of order.

She was recounting someone else’s sick joke but it was still quite an inappropriate thing to say on live telly.

https://mobile.twitter.com/HowlandRobin/status/926...

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Another bigoted Labour politician from Bradford - she thinks Hitler wasn’t such a bad guy.

BRADFORD’S Labour party has found itself embroiled in another anti-Semitism row, after shortlisting for political office a woman who faced criticism for a series of controversial posts about Jews.

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Labour's handling of the Khan case is surreal.

Labour probe after candidate shortlisted despite hate posts

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Jewish News understands that the party said it would would not be able to suspend her candidature as details of her past had been known at the time of her shortlisting. Only if new information emerged could the case be reexamined, they said.

Her explanation for one of those comments:

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In Khan’s mea culpa in August, she is understood to have said that she originally used the term ‘Zionist’, only to change it to ‘Jews’ when she was informed the former was “a term of abuse”.

And finally:

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She added that others in the party had said “as bad or worse”.

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The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (Corbyn is a patron) organise a protest outside the American embassy in a London and anti Jewish Arabic battle cries are chanted.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/protestors-scre...



https://mobile.twitter.com/AaronStarUK/status/9398...

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More of the same from Corbyn’s Labour Party.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/haringey-counci...

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Galloway - ‘shut up Jews or things will get worse for you’.

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Corbyn walked out of this debate today.



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/17/jere...

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Labour continue to tear themselves apart over this issue.

A senior shadow cabinet member has called on Labour to fully adopt an internationally accepted definition of antisemitism after a joint editorial in three prominent Jewish newspapers said a government led by Jeremy Corbyn would be an “existential threat” to Jewish life in the UK. Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, said he was “very depressed” by the front-page editorials on Thursday in the Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News and Jewish Telegraph condemning the decision over Labour’s code of conduct, and said the party needed to rebuild trust with the Jewish community.