Then a missing segment was released. In it, Corbyn gives the clearest explanation yet of how he sees the British Jewish community.
The “progressive Jewish element in Britain…opposed [the Balfour Declaration] on the basis that it would only bring problems for a lot of Jewish people,” he explained. Indeed, the progressive leadership in London was “actually Jewish trade unionists and Jewish people in the East End of London.” So far, so good!
But then something bad happened.
“It was Zionism that rose up, and Zionism that drove them [i.e. the Jews] into this sort of ludicrous position they have at the present time.” He then says, “for example,” and leads into the anecdote about the “thankfully silent Zionists” who “don’t understand English irony.”
This shows, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Corbyn was telling a story about British Jews, not just “Zionists.” That they used to be good comrades, when they were poor socialists, but then Zionism rose up and “drove them” to somewhere else.
Corbyn’s views on Zionism and Jews are best understood in the context of Marxist revolutionary history.The Soviets initially supported Zionism. However, that changed in 1967 when the official position became virulent anti-Zionism, tinged with anti-Semitism. Zionism was chauvinistic, racist and anti-Soviet, a front for neo-colonialism and supported by international Jewish power.
I am not convinced that Corbyn subscribes to the more extreme version – but it is helpful in understanding his views. He has spent a lifetime only speaking to those who share his worldview, which unfortunately means he has little access to or interest in competing narratives.This is a huge problem for the British Jewish community as whilst our grandparents may have been “good Jews,” we, apparently, are not.
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Corbyn called for Holocaust Memorial Day to be renamed ‘Genocide Memorial Day’
He just fucking “All Lives Matter”’ed the Holocaust
Listen, British followers, I’m sure you vote Labour and that’s the right choice, but… can you call your MPs and tell them to kick this asshole out of leadership? Is that a thing that happens in the UK?
Corbyn called for Holocaust Memorial Day to be renamed ‘Genocide Memorial Day’
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A British Jewish charity building. Every single court and appeal found no doubt that these two were guilty. But Corbyn didn’t care.
Much like his letter in defense of the homophobic holocaust denying hate preacher (who was literally caught on tape and in his own blogs), or even Putin’s forces dropping a nerve toxin in an english town and killing an innocent British civilian while trying to get at an ex-spy – I suspect that actually, he knows full well they did it. He doesn’t actually doubt it. He knows the evidence is there, but this faux-doubt is his technique of slyly ignoring that.
When he talks about ‘miscarriages of justice’ or ‘looking at the facts’ (another Corbyn fave), it isn’t because he truly believes it. It’s because he secretly agrees with them, and wants to excuse them.
Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite.
I don’t want to hear Corbyn supporters saying he isn’t antisemitic. Admit that you don’t give a shit about Jews if it nationalizes the trains. At least that’s honest. Well, except for those of you who hate Jews, straight up, and that’s what appeals about him.
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.
Sorry for the off-topic post after so long, but this is racism, plain and simple. This is not Corbyn just associating with an antisemite, or having dodgy allies, or going to antisemitic meetings. This is Corbyn being personally antisemitic.
If you did this to any other religion or race it would be called racism – imagine if he called a black MP the MP for Africa, or called Sadiq Khan the Mayor of Londonistan. Corbyn is being a racist bully.
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