thecoppercow:

I mean whatever your views on Israel or Israel-Palestine this is fucking weird, and he keeps doing it.

• He made a Holocaust memorial speech and refused to say ‘jew’ or ‘jewish victims’.
• He (reluctantly) turned up to an event about Israel and refused to acknowledge the country or the word (and I know the usual cunts on tumblr are going to go yasss at this, pretend like this was a good thing, but you’re literally in bed with neonazis on this so). Even normal Palestinian activists acknowledge that the place, you know, exists. It’s only genocidal fuckers who think it should be totally erased
• He couldn’t find time to attend Yad Vashem, the holocaust memorial, when asked, or even time to talk about working with the community leaders but went out of his way (on the same damn day) to say he’d work with Putin and his cronies, after an attack had occurred. He prioritised that himself, unprompted. It’s a bit of a non-sequitur, but it’s an interesting comparison. Jewish community leaders, always too busy, in 3 years. All manner of cranks and thugs, including MEND and various Assadists and Putinists = fine.
• He pretended he was busy to get out of attending a memorial day event for jewish labour groups… but then attended some random party at the same conference.
• Whenever he’s asked to condemn antisemitism he never does so directly but goes to his favourite phrase ‘and all other forms of racism’. He doesn’t like to talk about jewish people as an oppressed class at all.
• He refused to ever give an interview to any jewish newspaper for 40 years, (until this latest antisemitism scandal started affecting his polls and he began panicking), but found time to appear on RT and Press TV, nodding along to Eichmann apologism and people who said that Israel should be ‘cleansed’.

 I know people are bored of me banging on about this but he did this so many more times, he actually hates jewish people, and I know when I say that the only other two groups famous for doing this non-recognition tactic are neonazis who hate jews and Hamas who are determined to kill all jews, people think I’m exaggerating, but it’s true.

Criticism of Israel isn’t inherently anti-semitic, sure..But Corbyn just hates talking about jewish people and a majority jewish state at all. It isn’t anti-zionism. It stems from antisemitism.