The widespread belief has been created by an inherently anti-Labour media. Jewish Voice for Labour hardly ever get any airtime. You may not like them, but their viewpoint should be heard. The slur against Labour has so often been that they are institutionally anti-Semitic, yet no-one ever manages to explain what this means. A lot of Jewish Labour members say they have never encountered anti-Semitism in the Party. Why should I not believe them?
they've the memory of a goldfish
have a quick search for it, there's a full page of results on google news for the last 20 hours alone
At the risk of repeating myself, the accusations of anti-Semitism may well be partly an organised conspiracy, or entirely spontaneous and opportunistic, but either way largely groundless. People go on about it because they’re pissed off at 5 years of Johnson, and think that part of the reason Labour lost is because of all the smears.
The problem is that the media were full of it, and they weren’t full of anti-Indian stuff. Can’t you see that, or nah
It’s an easy target because Corbyn and his advisors handled it so badly, not because the Labour Party is anti-Semitic as an organisation, and because the media (again) is so biased. Not just the Tory press but our friends in the Guardian as well.
Thanks for that insight.
Of course the leadership handled it terribly and of course the media was biased. But is that really the whole story? At the absolute minimum, there were an awful lot of people sharing antisemitic memes and tropes - often without necessarily realising what they were doing, as in the case of the infamous mural. And then telling Jewish people that they were simply wrong that there was any antisemitism. I'm not Jewish but I know how the whole farrago would have made me feel if I was, and it saddens me that there still remains a lack of empathy on this from large parts of the left. It doesn't matter that some of it was smears, and media confected, there were fucking appalling examples like actual Labour councillors sharing holocaust denial material.
There’s a lot closed minds out there (obviously setting myself up for the same accusation)
Yet Jewish friends and acquaintances tell me different.
Fair enough. But i’ve yet to be given answers to my questions. Just how is the Labour Party institutionally anti-Semitic? M.p’s, peers, councillors, CLP officials etc up and down the country are of Jewish heritage. Some pRo-Israel ones, and right-wingers, see anti-semitism everywhere. Anti-Zionist ones don’t.
Arseholes, bastards, fucking cunts and pricks! See, I can do that too.
