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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.
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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.
Why has Labour run the risk of alienating progressive Jews? | Nick Cohen
Rather than building a popular front to fight Trump and Brexit, Labour has taken it upon itself to reject the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism. Don’t panic, the alliance isn’t a Jewish conspiracy. It states that “criticism of Israel similar to that levelled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic”. Its working definition is accepted by thousands of public bodies. But not the British Labour party.
Labour dropped the alliance’s stipulation that it was racist to accuse Jewish citizens of having a greater loyalty to world Jewry than their own country, or to hold Israel to a higher standard than other democratic nations. The international definition implies that Ken Livingstone’s “Hitler was a Zionist”fake history or comparisons of Israel with Nazism are racist. Labour prefers to hide in a forest of equivocation. It is normal to draw metaphors from history, its Jewsplainers state. It is not antisemitic to use them “unless there is evidence of antisemitic intent”. As you can rarely look into another person’s soul and prove intent, I take that to mean Labour is giving many of its racists a free pass.
Why has Labour run the risk of alienating progressive Jews? | Nick Cohen
Belgian rapper with anti-Semitic lyrics shut down during public radio appearance
A Belgian public radio station ejected a rapper from its studio who on the air inveighed against Israel and “Zionists” while introducing a song with lyrics about “money-loving Jews running after each cent.”
The incident occurred last month at the Antwerp studio of a department of the VRT broadcaster during an interview with Bissy Owa, an up-and-coming performer who is Muslim, about his recently released song titled “Money till the Death,” the Joods Actueel news website reported Wednesday.
The VRT studio muted Owa’s microphone after he said during a live interview: “F*** the Zionists, revolution, Israel must go, free Palestine.”
The song, which begins with the expletive about Zionists, shows Owa dancing while wearing a black hat and fake sidelocks and singing about Jewish greed. He also says “I can’t hang with a Jew.”
After Owa’s interviewers muted his microphone, he secretly filmed himself having a heated argument with them before they closed the studio door on him and his two friends.
“You shouldn’t have done that,” one interviewer, Astrid Demeure, told him. Another, Brahim, said: “I have every respect for you, but some things you can’t say on national radio. This is dangerous – for us.”
Owa responded by shouting: “This is nothing, you haven’t seen anything yet! There will be worse coming, much worse!” as he walks away from the closing door. Owa uploaded the secret filming on Wednesday to YouTube.
Before the confrontation, he said the song he presented was written “in reaction to the situation in Gaza.”
Philippe De Backer, a Cabinet minister in the government of the Flemish Region – the Belgian state whose capital is Antwerp — told Joods Actueel that politicians need to speak out against the content disseminated by Owa.
“We cannot allow the Jewish community to be threatened and stigmatized like that in our open society,” De Backer said. “Also not in the context of anti-Zionism.”
A video featuring Owa’s clip about Jews has been removed from YouTube after registering more than 100,000 views. But another copy is available on the same video platform.
André Gantman, a lawmaker on the municipal council of Antwerp, called on authorities to initiate a criminal investigation against Owa for incitement to violence or hatred.
Belgian rapper with anti-Semitic lyrics shut down during public radio appearance
“If you’re in a space where you’re feeling uncomfortable, it’s not our job to make you comfortable,” [Sarsour] said. “It’s your job to reflect and say, ‘What is it about the space that’s making me feel uncomfortable? What is it about this particular form of injustice that’s making me feel uncomfortable? Why would a Jewish American feel alienated by speaking about the atrocities and human rights violations that the Israeli government is committing against Palestinian people,” Sarsour asked the audience. “Why would it make you uncomfortable?”
Well, Linda, I’ll fucking tell you! Most of us are actually not uncomfortable talking about the human rights violations Israel is committing against the Palestinian people—like, at all! What we are uncomfortable with is the way you frame the discussion so that Jews are depicted as a non-indigenous group of White McWhite people who just showed up one day and stole land from the Palestinians for kicks, rather than as another equally indigenous group who the Romans expelled, leading to a diasporic existence that saw us repeatedly exiled and murdered for 2,000 in countries all over the world because we were outsiders from the Levant. We aren’t uncomfortable acknowledging that Israel’s policies are heinous, and there are plenty of us who are even comfortable thinking of an alternative to Israel in which both peoples live side by side, BUT—that future where the peoples exist in a unified state can’t fucking exist if you refuse to recognise the Jewish people for who we actually are. Acting like Jews are Afrikaners 2.0 instead of understanding our history and our traumas and our peoplehood is not a foundation on which you can build mutual respect and coexistence. We’re “uncomfortable” in your spaces because you actively rewrite our history to fit your own narrative instead of respecting our identity as a people. In your spaces, everyone has a right to define their oppression and identity except for the Jews.
Honestly, the fact that this whole thing is framed in the context of “Maybe you should examine why having your privilege called out makes you uncomfortable” is just another example of why we feel we don’t belong in your spaces. Because you’re equating us with supremacy in the same breath that you’re supposedly condemning the Nazis outside yelling “Jews will not divide us!” You see us being actively targeted, yet you leave us out of your activism because it doesn’t fit your I/P narrative. We’re fucking uncomfortable because when you’re not willing to take Jewish people at their word regarding their life experiences, you’re not willing to stand up for us or include us in your movements. This isn’t about glossing over the atrocities in Palestine. This is about you disliking Jews unless they let you define for them what it means to be Jewish.
And we have a word for people like that: It’s antisemite.
Or maybe, since these people deny the premise of antisemitism that Jews are a Semitic people – sharing language, ethnic heritage, and place of origin with other Middle Eastern and North African groups – we should go back to basics and call them what they are at bottom: Jew-haters.
Opinion | Memo To Shaun King From A Black Jew: Stop Dividing Our Communities
Maybe you don’t realize this, but by conflating the criticism of you and Mallory with racism, you are suggesting that Jews who worry about anti-Semitism — most Jews, actually — are somehow racist. That’s not just borderline racist itself. But it erases tons of people like me, Black Jews and other Jews of Color, forcing us to pick a side. You’ve created a false binary that puts Black Jews like me in danger, and isolates us. Either we stand with you, against “Jewish folk,” or we stand with racists.
Nylah Burton is a goddess of the written word.
Opinion | Memo To Shaun King From A Black Jew: Stop Dividing Our Communities
How Jewish Progressives Can Stand Up Against Left Anti-Semitism – Tablet Magazine
While bigots and conspiracy theorists continue to target Jews far in excess of any other religious minorities in America, a combination of neo-Nazi events like Charlottesville and ongoing allegations of anti-Semitism against high-profile progressives has shaken confidence that either the political left or the right are staked in protecting our community. Instead, we see that anti-Semitism is becoming part of mainstream discourse across party lines. Those of us on the left have an obligation to stand up and stop it from derailing and destroying the justice movements we have helped to build, and continue to be a vital part of in the United States.
There are those who say anti-Semitism can be ignored as a “side issue” in Trump’s America, and that there are too many vulnerable people in too much peril for us to be “distracted” or “divided” by focusing on anti-Jewish hate. They are mistaken. Hate emboldens hate. As Eric K. Ward has written here, anti-Semitism fuels white supremacy. In fact, anti-Semitism is the core ideological foundation of white supremacist ideology in Trump’s America. If we ignore the smoke of anti-Semitism rising, the American progressive movement will find itself engulfed in flames.
“We cannot allow the voice of the Jewish left to become token ‘progressive Jews’ who provide their movements with a kosher stamp for tolerating and ignoring real anti-Semitism, but who are wildly out of step with our communal values and beliefs, like Jewish Voice for Peace. While many of us are deeply critical of Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu both in terms of policy and rhetoric, nearly 70 percent of American Jews feel attached to Israel. Anti-Semitism and criticism of Israel are not the same, but it is very common for anti-Semitism to claim anti-Zionism as its first line of defense—and then to protest that ‘criticism of Israel’ is ‘not allowed,’ and then blame Israel for hideous blood-libel-like crimes on flimsy or nonexistent evidence. Only 12 percent of American Jews believe that Palestinian leadership is sincere in its efforts for peace. We take the violent, Holocaust-denying, eliminationist rhetoric of the Palestinian leadership every bit as seriously as we take the violent, racist rhetoric of some settler leaders on the West Bank. An overwhelming number of American Jews see Israel’s flaws clearly, as we see America’s flaws—but we do not believe that Israel is a genocidal, colonial state.
“Such rhetoric spoken in our name is tokenization, pure and simple. We must push back against tokenization, which is a form of dehumanization, and demand that voices that are representative of mainstream Jewish views be empowered and respected within the progressive community. Just as we name anti-Semitism, we must also name tokenization and refuse to cede space in the movement to extremists. I believe as we push back we will find avenues for partnership with moderate voices on issues such as human rights for asylum seekers in Israel and concerns about political corruption and inequality. Engagement can be painful, but it is the only option if we are going to stop the left from being overrun by anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and tokenization.
“As we are naming hatred, and flexing our political muscle to demand accountability, and pushing for true representation and empowerment, it is important that we center on those members of our community who are truly the most vulnerable. We must stand with members of the Lubavitch community in the face of street violence. We must stand with those who cannot ‘pass’ and are targeted with violent anti-Semitism. We must be sensitive to the unique pain and fear that Jews of Color, multiracial Jews, and their families face when tensions between communities are running high. We must remember to call out the homophobia that often stands alongside anti-Semitism. We must be the model of intersectionality that progressive leaders are abandoning. We must hold ourselves to the high standard that they have failed to achieve.”
How Jewish Progressives Can Stand Up Against Left Anti-Semitism – Tablet Magazine
wow looking forward to the #discourse next year
It’s already started! Not 5 minutes after she won, the usual antisemitic (mainly leftwing corbynite, some rightwing fash-y, ofc, in case you wondered) types have come crawling out of the woodwork to cry about how “Israel shouldn’t exist as a country, yadda yadda, surely this is the one country to have ever had a fractious domestic political system, how could the european public vote to crown a …you know. You know what she is.
Jewish– no wait I meant Zionist. That’ll cover it. I’m totally motivated by care for random Palestinians and not because I’m a giant piece of trash. Israel’s not even in Europe* anyway.”If I wasn’t already supporting her because of her song, I’d be supporting her out of spite because it’s upset the racists…
*(The answer to the last question is – because if you knew your Eurovision history you’d know it was because Israel is a founder member of the EBU, you fake Eurovision fans.)
I literally just saw someone say that they objected to Israel “as a concept” when Israel “as a concept” is literally the least objectionable version of Israel. The concept of Israel is “we have a minority that has been subjected to centuries of violence and oppression and less than 5 years ago was very nearly wiped out in Europe so let’s give them some land in their historic homeland and let them take control of their own lives”.
That is the concept of Israel. Sure there’s a lot of stuff you can say about the reality of Israel but the CONCEPT of Israel surely is debate free?
But no. “I object to the concept of Israel”. Well sorry love you’re just a straight up anti-Semite. There’s no other way to say it.
At least if they’re saying that outright, they do in fact know what “anti-Zionist” means. Many of the people who call themselves that and claim it acquits them of antisemitism don’t seem to know.
Support For Women’s March Softens Among Jews Amid Perceived Anti-Semitism
“I can’t in good conscience say that I support a movement or feel a part of a movement that clearly does not embrace me back,” Schorr told the Forward.
Schorr’s feelings reflect a broader trend in the relationship between the Women’s March and the Jewish community, which started out on a high note right after President Trump’s election but has since seen some rough spots over perceived anti-Semitism. Now a more organized backlash is forming. Some individuals and groups are speaking out against the march, and an organization has formed to push for change within the march and provide an alternative for disenchanted activists.
The Women’s March could not be reached for comment.
Support For Women’s March Softens Among Jews Amid Perceived Anti-Semitism
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