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norahmaydean
norahmaydean
4 years ago

OK, you are invited to the party Mr Brown ( tongue ).

rippon g
rippon g
4 years ago

1) Traditional European antisemitism flooding back into Labour, illustrated by the east London “Freedom for Humanity” mural that Corbyn defended, and which perpetuated ideas about Jewish world domination.

This incident actually disproves the antisemitism allegation. Corbyn endorsed a mural whose message was that a global capitalist class is exploiting the rest of us. It had to *pointed out to him* that one of the characters had a hook nose, and that could be interpreted as antisemitic. That is, in glimpsing the mural, Corbyn did not even notice that feature, and if he did, he did not in *his* mind make the connection: hook-nose = Jew.
But the people making the antisemitism accusation *did* make that connection; so, if anything, the accusers might be the antisemitic ones.

2) Holding Israel’s Jews to a higher standard than the rest of the world.
3) An obsessive focus on Israel for errors that are far worse elsewhere.

Those two are ‘whataboutery’: ‘Why point the finger at Jews/Israel when that country over there is behaving even worse.’

4) Supporting or otherwise praising genocidal, Jew-murdering terrorist groups.

Some quotes would be helpful. (Even Tony Blair has in the past suggested that we should negotiate with Hamas.

rippon g
rippon g
4 years ago

1) Traditional European antisemitism flooding back into Labour, illustrated by the east London “Freedom for Humanity” mural that Corbyn defended, and which perpetuated ideas about Jewish world domination.

This incident actually disproves the antisemitism allegation. Corbyn endorsed a mural whose message was that a global capitalist class is exploiting the rest of us. It had to *pointed out to him* that one of the characters had a hook nose, and that could be interpreted as antisemitic. That is, in glimpsing the mural, Corbyn did not even notice that feature, and if he did, he did not in *his* mind make the connection: hook-nose = Jew.
But the people making the antisemitism accusation *did* make that connection; so, if anything, the accusers might be the antisemitic ones.

2) Holding Israel’s Jews to a higher standard than the rest of the world.
3) An obsessive focus on Israel for errors that are far worse elsewhere.

Those two are ‘whataboutery’: ‘Why point the finger at Israel when that country over there is behaving even worse.’

4) Supporting or otherwise praising genocidal, Jew-murdering terrorist groups.

Some quotes would be helpful. Even Tony Blair has in the past suggested that we should negotiate with Hamas.