{"id":192459,"date":"2019-08-01T06:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192459"},"modified":"2019-08-04T07:19:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T07:19:54","slug":"labours-anti-semitism-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192459","title":{"rendered":"Labour\u2019s Anti-Semitism Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish Savant \u2013 irishsavant.blogspot.com July 29, 2019<\/h1>\n

What’s behind the transformation of the British Labour Party into a 21st century re-embodiment of the Nazis or the Fascists? Things seem to be really bad but according to the BBC “anti-Semitism was generally not regarded as a big problem in the Labour Party before Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader in September 2015”. Which is putting it mildly as the previous leadership election was between two Jewish brothers. But now cries of anguish rend the air, defectors are leaving in droves and the very existence of the party has been brought into question.<\/h5>\n
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has announced a wide-ranging investigation into whether Labour “unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people because they are Jewish”.\u00a0Lords Turnburg, Triesman and Darzi (two Jews and an Iraqi) have resigned, “finally abandoning their struggle against Labour’s antisemitism”. Triesman has admitted that the party is now ‘beyond reform’. Now that<\/em> is serious. Many MPs have actually started a breakaway party (lead by Spear-Chukka Ummuna, scion of a legendary aristocratic British dynasty). Images of Germany in the 1930’s are regularly conjured up and the “right-wing” Spectator<\/em> asks if the gravity of the crisis means the party no longer has a reason to exist. (The Spectator is what passes for right-wing these days. Item: Let’s call economic nationalism what it really is<\/em>: ‘White supremacism.’)<\/h5>\n
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The Jewish press came out in unison to condemn Corbyn. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

In March 2018, scores of Labour MPs joined Jewish groups, including the Jewish Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and other anti-racism campaigners to demand action in an unprecedented “Enough is Enough” rally outside Parliament.\u00a0In July 2018, the UK’s three main Jewish newspapers <\/em>[are they not all<\/em> Jewish newspapers?] published the same front page, warning that a government led by Mr Corbyn would pose an “existential threat to Jewish life<\/em>“.<\/h5>\n
Fearing the onset of another\u00a0Holocau$t\u2122 I set about determining the full scale of the horror. I have good tidings for those of you racked with worry at the possibility of Jewish party members being savagely beaten and dragged through the streets or Labour formally adopting the position that all Jews must be expelled from Britain. In fact it’s quite difficult to find any overt examples of good old-fashioned anti-Semitism. Make that impossible to find.\u00a0The Daily Mail<\/em> managed to dredge up a video from 2013 of Corbyn\u00a0saying that a group of British Zionists had “no sense of English irony”. This lead former Chief Rabbi Lord Sachs to denounce it as\u00a0“the most offensive statement” by a politician since Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech, going on to accuse the Labour leader of being – wait for it – an anti-Semite.\u00a0 Well Rabbi the only rational response to that would be if that mild throwaway remark is ‘the worst’ then you got nothing to worry about.<\/h5>\n
But there’s more. A Jamaican party member had the temerity to ask why The<\/em> Holocau$t\u2122 is the only one commemorated. Why is not\u00a0the Atlantic slave trade regarded as a holocaust in its own right? Cue an explosion of outrage from the usual suspects. The poor woman, despite abject apologies and retractions was driven from her post. We get a bit closer to the real reason with Labour’s refusal to adopt some clauses of the ‘internationally recognised’ definition of anti-Semitism including, crucially, that\u00a0of ‘accusing Jewish people of being more loyal to Israel than their home country’.<\/h5>\n
And that my friends pretty much sums up the raging anti-Semitism of Corbyn and the Labour Party. There’s nothing to it and that explains the lack of specificity behind the campaign. The real reason lies in Labour’s perceived disobedience in failing to unquestionably<\/em><\/strong> support all things Jewish and Israeli.\u00a0 This might well work as already Corbyn is running for cover while the ‘anti-Semites’ have been marginalised. Well at least for now.<\/h5>\n
You see the ruthless crushing of dissent is a double-edged sword. Yes, it can<\/em> work and has<\/em> worked in the past as we all know. But in countries with a tradition of free speech such draconian measures also lead to pent-up resentment, the expression of which could lead to unpredictable outcomes. When you control the levers of power, especially media, it’s easy\u00a0 to miss this build-up. Remember\u00a0Nicolae Ceau\u0219escu and many another dictator thought they were loved by the people right up till the time they were lynched. Couple this attitude with raging paranoia and you have a combustible combination.<\/h5>\n

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