Protest Against Corbyn and Labour Party’s AntiSemitism

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The Labour Party’s history reminds us there have always been left-wing anti-semites
In the 19th century, socialists who mixed anti-semitic conspiracy theories with left-wing rhetoric were said to subscribe to the Socialism of Fools.

The Labour Party’s history reminds us there have always been left-wing anti-semites

 

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From that article:

** "Wherever there is trouble in Europe, wherever rumours of war circulate and men's minds are distraught with fear of change and calamity, you may be sure that a hooked-nosed Rothschild is at his games somewhere near the region of the disturbances."

So said Labour Leader, the newspaper of the Independent Labour Party, back in 1891. A mere 127 years later, the current leader of the Labour Party is in trouble for apparently backing a mural that, quite literally, featured a caricature of a hook-nosed Rothschild. Safe to say, antisemitism has been around in the Labour Party for a lot longer than Jeremy Corbyn**

 

[Tilly]

This about Jeremy Corbyn and the Jewish Community. Not Muslims.

Well, it certainly isn’t about the ‘asian’ grooming/rape gangs that some posters were strangely derailing the thread with.
But it is undeniable that antisemitism has increased along with the huge influx of Islamic immigrants. This is also in evidence in other European countries that have received large numbers of Islamic immigrants.
Also, the Labour Party courts the Muslim vote, has a number of Muslim MPs accused of and suspended for antisemitism, and who also support Hamas and attend the anti Semitic al Quds marches. Hamas want to see Israel driven into the sea - how could one support the violent destruction of Israel and claim not to be antisemitic?

The thread is about Jeremy Corbyn and Labour, it's not about Muslims yet again you are posting about Muslims.

"Well, it certainly isn’t about the ‘asian’ grooming/rape gangs that some posters were strangely derailing the thread with."

We all will remember this the next time you invade a thread that has NOTHING to do with Muslims so you can have crocodile tears about Muslim Rape Gangs you do not give a crap about only when it's Convenient. Now like a good Bedwetter report this post or I will save time and report my post for you.

I think we have lost count of the threads you have derailed but not being Bedwetters we did not report, from now on you will be getting reported, I tell you this in the open here because you do have PMs Disabled, from now on when you derail other threads that have NOTHING to do with Muslims and Islam to have crocodile tears about Muslims and Muslim Rape Gangs you are getting reported.

I didn’t say that antisemitism in the Labour Party has nothing to do with muslims.
I said that the grooming/rape gangs in the U.K. have nothing to do with the subject of the protest against antisemitism in the Labour Party/Corbyn.
And it DOESN'T.
I also asked you politely twice to cease derailing the thread with posts about grooming/rape gangs but you seem to think you are a law unto yourself.
So, I can see that you have been severely triggered here, just as you are when people make posts about immigrant attacks in your country, Austria. You also have almighty, expletive laden hissy fits when posters have the audacity to comment on such things occurring in Austria, yet you are quite free with your insults against everyone else’s nations.
Now, go ahead and get busy with your report finger, Lucy, but do quit derailing my threads in the meantime. Thank you!

Stop derailing the thread you are Off Topic, the Topic is Jeremy Corbyn and Labour.

We are not Cucked like Britain, Britain should be insulted you cannot even protect your own children from being raped.

I wonder why you always get your knickers in such a twist and attempt to derail whenever the subject of anti semitism is raised

Anyway, back to the topic, Lucy


Muslims play a prominent role among Labour party anti-Semitic inciters
Any in-depth look into a Western country will uncover extreme Muslim anti-Semitic inciters, usually operating from religious communities


.....While not all of the most extreme anti-Semitic slurs disclosed were made by Muslim representatives of the party, they represented a disproportionately large percentage of the anti-Semitic perpetrators.
Salim Mulla was one of those suspended. This councilor and former mayor of Blackburn claimed that Israel was behind ISIS.

As so often among Muslim anti-Semites around the world, in addition to attacking Israel they also incite against Jews. Mulla wrote: “Zionist Jews are a disgrace to humanity.”[5] Beinazir Lasharie, a Labour councillor in Kensington posted a Facebook message saying: “Many people know about who was behind 9/11 and also who is behind Isis. I’ve nothing against Jews ... just sharing it!”[6]

Muslims play a prominent role among Labour party anti-Semitic inciters

 

[Tilly]

This about Jeremy Corbyn and the Jewish Community. Not Muslims.

Well, it certainly isn’t about the ‘asian’ grooming/rape gangs that some posters were strangely derailing the thread with.
But it is undeniable that antisemitism has increased along with the huge influx of Islamic immigrants. This is also in evidence in other European countries that have received large numbers of Islamic immigrants.
Also, the Labour Party courts the Muslim vote, has a number of Muslim MPs accused of and suspended for antisemitism, and who also support Hamas and attend the anti Semitic al Quds marches. Hamas want to see Israel driven into the sea - how could one support the violent destruction of Israel and claim not to be antisemitic?

Self Deleting my own post now it has been read which was my point in posting it that it being read.

I’m glad if that made you happy, Lucy. And thank you for deleting your off topic post

Now back to the topic. This is what Douglas Murray had to say about antisemitism in the Labour Party back in 2016.
Seems he was right that it wouldn’t be easy to ‘root it out’ - if anyone even bothered trying:


Labour’s anti-Semitism problem stems from its grassroots
Douglas Murray


....But now everybody is talking about the Jews and Labour’s anti-Semitism problem. Yet they still refuse to get to the point. Because it is not as though anti-Semitism is simply transferred in the water-supply. Of course there are anti-Semitic tendencies in every strain of politics. I could point to a strain within the Conservative tradition. But in the Conservative tradition it is dying. The problem for Labour is that anti-Semitism in their party is a growth industry. And the simple reason for that is a demographic one.

The modern Labour party claims to be an anti-racist movement, but because of demographic changes in the UK in certain areas it has to run on a covertly racist ticket. Try getting elected in Bradford as a Jew or a philo-Semite. And what exactly do people think the voters of Bradford West want? This is a constituency that voted for George Galloway even after everything one needed to know about Galloway was known. It is a constituency which he, while the local MP, declared an ‘Israel-free zone’ and where journalists of Jewish appearance or name were physically assaulted. Is it an accident that David Ward (remember him?) of the Lib Dems represented Bradford East?

Why did that happen? The simple reason is, as Mehdi Hasan once said, that anti-Semitism among Britain’s Muslim communities is ‘routine and commonplace.’ It is, as Mehdi said, the ‘dirty little secret’ of Britain’s Muslims. Numerous polls have shown a glimpse of the same thing. And that, right there, is Labour’s problem: the more Muslims you have, the more anti-Semitism you have. Of course the party will not admit this. Not least because it goes directly against New Labour’s policy of mass immigration...

Labour’s anti-Semitism problem stems from its grassroots | Coffee House

 

[Tilly]

Oops. Seems they just can’t help themselves:

Corbynista Labour activist is SUSPENDED after tweeting mocked-up image of notorious Auschwitz 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign on job centre

• Labour has suspended an activist over tweet of mocked-up job centre sign
• Post by Marianne Tellier replaced usual job centre logo with 'Arbeit Macht Frei'
• Row erupted as Labour was engulfed by row over anti-Semitism problem in party

By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline

PUBLISHED: 15:46, 29 March 2018 | UPDATED: 15:47, 29 March 2018

A Labour activist was suspended today after tweeting a mocked-up image of the notorious Auschwitz 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign on a job centre.

Marianne Tellier is facing a formal investigation over the offensive post as the party's anti-Semitism crisis continued to rage.

The fervent Corbynista, who has served as a ward secretary in Sheffield Heeley, sent the message in response to a jokey cartoon about how work stops people having a life.

The image she tweeted shows a job centre sign, with the normal logo replaced with the words: 'Arbeit Macht Frei.'

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Marianne Tellier is facing a formal investigation over the offensive post (pictured) as the party's anti-Semitism crisis continued to rage



Read more: Labour activist is SUSPENDED over 'Arbeit Macht Frei' tweet | Daily Mail Online
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Oops. Seems they just can’t help themselves:

Corbynista Labour activist is SUSPENDED after tweeting mocked-up image of notorious Auschwitz 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign on job centre

• Labour has suspended an activist over tweet of mocked-up job centre sign
• Post by Marianne Tellier replaced usual job centre logo with 'Arbeit Macht Frei'
• Row erupted as Labour was engulfed by row over anti-Semitism problem in party

By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline

PUBLISHED: 15:46, 29 March 2018 | UPDATED: 15:47, 29 March 2018

A Labour activist was suspended today after tweeting a mocked-up image of the notorious Auschwitz 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign on a job centre.

Marianne Tellier is facing a formal investigation over the offensive post as the party's anti-Semitism crisis continued to rage.

The fervent Corbynista, who has served as a ward secretary in Sheffield Heeley, sent the message in response to a jokey cartoon about how work stops people having a life.

The image she tweeted shows a job centre sign, with the normal logo replaced with the words: 'Arbeit Macht Frei.'

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Marianne Tellier is facing a formal investigation over the offensive post (pictured) as the party's anti-Semitism crisis continued to rage



Read more: Labour activist is SUSPENDED over 'Arbeit Macht Frei' tweet | Daily Mail Online
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This thing is escalating.

Diane Abbott has weighed in now. Making out Jeremy's a victim.

 

[Tilly]

Oops. Seems they just can’t help themselves:

Corbynista Labour activist is SUSPENDED after tweeting mocked-up image of notorious Auschwitz 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign on job centre

• Labour has suspended an activist over tweet of mocked-up job centre sign
• Post by Marianne Tellier replaced usual job centre logo with 'Arbeit Macht Frei'
• Row erupted as Labour was engulfed by row over anti-Semitism problem in party

By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline

PUBLISHED: 15:46, 29 March 2018 | UPDATED: 15:47, 29 March 2018

A Labour activist was suspended today after tweeting a mocked-up image of the notorious Auschwitz 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign on a job centre.

Marianne Tellier is facing a formal investigation over the offensive post as the party's anti-Semitism crisis continued to rage.

The fervent Corbynista, who has served as a ward secretary in Sheffield Heeley, sent the message in response to a jokey cartoon about how work stops people having a life.

The image she tweeted shows a job centre sign, with the normal logo replaced with the words: 'Arbeit Macht Frei.'

+5
Marianne Tellier is facing a formal investigation over the offensive post (pictured) as the party's anti-Semitism crisis continued to rage



Read more: Labour activist is SUSPENDED over 'Arbeit Macht Frei' tweet | Daily Mail Online
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

This thing is escalating.

Diane Abbott has weighed in now. Making out Jeremy's a victim.

Yes, it doesn’t look as though it’s going away. Corbyn admitted to 300 complaints about anti semitism since he’s been in office, and some of his own MPs are demanding action on them.

What has that racist dingbat Diane had to offer?

 

[Tilly]

It just gets worse and worse....

Fresh Labour SCANDAL: Party accused of secretly reinstating anti-Semitism councillors

SHAMEFUL allegations have emerged accusing the Labour Party of secretly reinstating at least six councillors despite them having posted anti-Semitic messages online, insiders have claimed.

By DAN FALVEY
PUBLISHED: 00:02, Fri, Mar 30, 2018 | UPDATED: 07:43, Fri, Mar 30, 2018

Senior members of the socialist party were investigated for supposedly sending messages linking Israel to Isis and the Holocaust, among a number of other shocking opinions.

One insider has claimed that all six councillors involved were quietly reinstated to their positions and they accused Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) of being willing to ”defend any form of abuse if the person involved is perceived to be on their side of the party”.

They added: “Dispute hearings have gone from being straightforward sessions to decide whether people need to be referred, to members arguing cases shouldn't be processed based on pure politics”.....


Fresh Labour SCANDAL: Party accused of secretly reinstating anti-Semitism councillors

 

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Priceless.


WATCH: Jeremy Corbyn With Creepiest Passover Greeting of All Time
He’s decided to devote his entire greeting to the topic of antisemitism, while looking about as comfortable as someone constipated from eating too much…
ISRAELLYCOOL.COM

 

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Hey Tilly!


Take note of Diane Abbott's privileged background/education.

here is, in the early undistinguished career of Jeremy Corbyn, an incident which probably says more about the man than a thousand platitudes on social justice. Indulging one day in the infantile Leftist street theatre that made the Greater London Council a prime target for Thatcher in the 80s, comrade Corbyn suddenly realised he had left a weighty piece of agitprop in his flat. Knowing that his guest was still sleeping it off, our gallant hero didn’t hesitate for a minute, taking fastidious care to invite his guests in while he retrieved the critical missive. There, in resplendent semi-naked repose, was Dianne Abbott, no mean sight in her pride, and possessing all the cachet an ostentatious vegan socialist would want to flaunt in the febrile left-wing politics of that decade.

Diane Abbott, as British readers will know, went on to be the first black female MP in the House of Commons and, if she has spent most of her career playing down an expensive private education, she at least she was a worthy public spectacle. The whole scene reeks of student politics, and her tawdry outing somehow seems far more offensive than the torrent of subliterate tweets she undoubtedly gets from cyber cranks, especially when one considers the gulf in intellect between them. Abbot, like her school contemporary Michael Portillo, made the most of her privilege at Harrow and went on to a decent degree at Newnham College.

Corbyn by contrast is an embarrassing lightweight in a party known for intellectual gravitas, his aborted polytechnic degree in Trade Union studies a testimony to the kind of limitations even a privileged childhood cannot entirely efface (Corbyn, brought up in a seven-bedroom manor house is the latest in a long line of silver spoon Labour left-wingers). To be fair, Corbyn is a modest man but then again he has much to be modest about, and in this puerile smutty gesture we have ample evidence of how he was able to compensate. Commenting on the left-wing Labour icon Tony Benn, Harold Wilson famously remarked that he immatured with age - much the same can be said of Corbyn and it is this which accounts for his preternatural cult popularity with the student rabble who are now a greater influence on the moral conscience of Labour than the rougher voices of organised labour.


The Left and Their Jewish Question

 

[Tilly]

Another Leftie who could have (seems Corbyn squandered his chance) benefitted from a Grammar School education but wants to deny others the same opportunity. And:

...Mr Corbyn left Adams with two A-levels, both at grade E, and an enduring hatred of selective education....

Speaking to Red Pepper magazine in 2015: "Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't. Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets...

He started a course in Trade Union Studies at North London Polytechnic but left after a series of arguments with his tutors over the curriculum....

The Jeremy Corbyn story

Who the hell cant manage to obtain a couple of A levels above E grade? Seems he couldn’t hack Polytechnic either.
Little wonder he promotes ill educated loud mouths such as Angela Rayner within the party - in this case to Shadow Education Secretary no less.
Oh the irony - she didn’t even gain a single GCSE at grade C or above!

And now this:

Eddie Izzard steps in after Christine Shawcroft quits Labour's NEC amid anti-Semitism row
A SENIOR Labour official at the centre of an anti-Semitism row last night resigned from the party’s governing body as pressure continued to mount on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the party.
By NICK LESTER AND CAMILLA TOMINEY, EXCLUSIVE

Eddie Izzard steps in after Christine Shawcroft quits Labour's NEC amid anti-Semitism row

 

[Tilly]

Why did I protest against Corbyn? Look at his long list of evasions | Hadley Freeman


...But I was furious after a weekend of news stories about how Corbyn had, once again, endorsed antisemitic behaviour and failed to take responsibility for it until public opinion forced him to do so. Deja vu? Groundhog Day, more like.

Let’s run through the greatest hits: there was the time Corbyn took tea with the hate preacher Raed Salah, and called him “a very honoured citizen”, even though he’d been charged in Israel with inciting anti-Jewish racism and violence;

the time he hosted representatives from Hamas and Hezbollah, even though Hamas’s charter calls for the destruction of the Jews;

the times he accepted a total of £20,000 for appearing on Iran’s Press TV, a channel that regularly hosts Holocaust deniers;

the time he defended the Rev Stephen Sizer, who was later banned by church authorities from social media for sharing antisemitic material blaming Israel for 9/11;

that he was an active member of three Facebook groups on which deeply antisemitic posts regularly appeared; and that now he has commented on Facebook in support of an absurdly antisemitic mural. ...

...Truly, I have never known a man to find himself alongside antisemites so often and not realise until it is publicly pointed out to him. Someone ought to make a sitcom about his misadventures with the antisemites. It could be called Oh, Jeremy Corbyn!, but with a more tutting tone than the usual triumphant one. A descending horn noise could sound whenever someone has to say it: “Have you just joined another antisemitic social media group? Oh, Jeremy Corbyn!”

I was furious after a weekend of watching his supporters – members of the public, journalists I once respected, various MPs – insist that this was all nonsense, a smear, a Zionist conspiracy designed to bring down infallible Jeremy. Quite how Jews have the wherewithal to conspire against Corbyn by cunningly making him endorse antisemites without his knowledge is never explained. So let’s get something straight: if someone has actually done something, reporting that action is not “a smear”, it’s “reporting”.
And suggesting Jews always have an ulterior motive, even when reacting to antisemitism, is really not the best way to prove that you’re not antisemitic.

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[Vagabond63]

I pop in here from time to time to read through threads for a giggle, but there’s rarely any point in participating as there’s very little serious discussion, just people trying to shout each other down, but in this instance, especially as I’m a Labour Party activist with several A levels above grade “E”, I feel it germane to set the record straight regarding Anti-Semitism within the Labour Party.

In 2017 the highly regarded Institute for Jewish Policy Research carried out a comprehensive survey of the population of the UK in regard to Anti-Semitism in contemporary Britain. Their findings show that genuine Anti-Semitism exists only in a tiny minority of the population (2%) and to quote from the pre-amble.

“The research finds that levels of anti-Israelism are considerably higher than levels of anti-Jewish feeling, and that the two attitudes exist both independently of one another and separately. However, the research also demonstrates that the greater the intensity of anti-Israel attitude, the more likely it is to be accompanied by anti-Semitic attitudes as well.”

As far as political groupings go,

“…levels of antisemitism are found to be highest among the far-right, and levels of anti-Israelism are heightened across all parts of the left-wing, but particularly on the far-left. In all cases, the higher the level of anti-Israelism, the more likely it is to be accompanied by antisemitism.”

I’m sure the previous commentators, (also having A levels above grade “E”) are able to differentiate between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism, if not, they (and anyone else who is interested) can read the full report here: Institute for Jewish Policy Research: Our publications

What the report does demonstrate is that the further “right wing” people are, the more likely they are to agree with Anti-Semitic statements. In reality, what we have is in fact a rather blatant and desperate last gasp smear campaign launched by the political right and their largely discredited media allies in this country to deflect from their appalling “austerity” policies and general mismanagement of the country as a whole, ahead of local elections across the country in May.

If these accusations, easily debunked, are all that they have then it’s clear the time is right for a sea change in British politics. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

 

[Tilly]

I pop in here from time to time to read through threads for a giggle, but there’s rarely any point in participating as there’s very little serious discussion, just people trying to shout each other down, but in this instance, especially as I’m a Labour Party activist with several A levels above grade “E”, I feel it germane to set the record straight regarding Anti-Semitism within the Labour Party.

In 2017 the highly regarded Institute for Jewish Policy Research carried out a comprehensive survey of the population of the UK in regard to Anti-Semitism in contemporary Britain. Their findings show that genuine Anti-Semitism exists only in a tiny minority of the population (2%) and to quote from the pre-amble.

“The research finds that levels of anti-Israelism are considerably higher than levels of anti-Jewish feeling, and that the two attitudes exist both independently of one another and separately. However, the research also demonstrates that the greater the intensity of anti-Israel attitude, the more likely it is to be accompanied by anti-Semitic attitudes as well.”

As far as political groupings go,

“…levels of antisemitism are found to be highest among the far-right, and levels of anti-Israelism are heightened across all parts of the left-wing, but particularly on the far-left. In all cases, the higher the level of anti-Israelism, the more likely it is to be accompanied by antisemitism.”

I’m sure the previous commentators, (also having A levels above grade “E”) are able to differentiate between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism, if not, they (and anyone else who is interested) can read the full report here: Institute for Jewish Policy Research: Our publications

What the report does demonstrate is that the further “right wing” people are, the more likely they are to agree with Anti-Semitic statements. In reality, what we have is in fact a rather blatant and desperate last gasp smear campaign launched by the political right and their largely discredited media allies in this country to deflect from their appalling “austerity” policies and general mismanagement of the country as a whole, ahead of local elections across the country in May.

If these accusations, easily debunked, are all that they have then it’s clear the time is right for a sea change in British politics. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Thank you, Vagabond, for your reply.

The findings you quote don’t actually say that ‘genuine’ antisemitism is found in only 2% of the population, but refers to 2% of the population as ‘hard core’ antisemites and also states that anti Semitic ideas are found in 30% of the population - that’s almost a third of the population.

Anti Semitic ideas are ‘genuinely’ anti Semitic, are they not?
If I were Jewish I’d be very concerned about these stats, and rightly so.

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...It finds that only a small proportion of British adults can be categorised as ‘hard-core’ antisemites – approximately 2% – yet antisemitic ideas can be found at varying degrees of intensity across 30% of British society. Whilst this categorically does not mean that 30% of the British population is antisemitic, it does demonstrate the outer boundary of the extent to which antisemitic ideas live and breathe in British society. As such, it goes some way towards explaining why British Jews appear to be so concerned about antisemitism, as the likelihood of them encountering an antisemitic idea is much higher than that suggested by simple measures of antisemitic individuals.....

....the report finds that levels of antisemitism and anti-Israelism among Christians are no different from those found across society as a whole, but among Muslims they are considerably higher on both counts. On the political spectrum, levels of antisemitism are found to be highest among the far-right, and levels of anti-Israelism are heightened across all parts of the left-wing, but particularly on the far-left. In all cases, the higher the level of anti-Israelism, the more likely it is to be accompanied by antisemitism...


Yet, importantly, most of the antisemitism found in British society exists outside of these three groups – the far-left, far-right and Muslims; even at its most heightened levels of intensity, only about 15% of it can be accounted for by them.


Institute for Jewish Policy Research: Our publications

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I wouldn’t mind seeing the methodology utilised in this study in order to understand how they categorise ‘hard core’ and non ‘hard core’ antisemitism, and also who they classify as ‘far right’, if you have them available.

Anyway, you say the accusations of anti semitism in the Labour Party are easily debunked, but your report doesn’t do that and neither have you, imho, because even if it’s a fact that antisemitism is more common in the ‘far right’ (does the report even explain who they consider the ‘far right’ to be?), that would in no way mean that Labour does not have an anti semitism problem, would it?

In addition, the far right are not governing the country, nor are they likely to, unlike Labour - the opposition. It is clearly incredibly alarming to find anti semitism among a political party that could implement antisemitic policies on its election.

And as the report points out, ‘In all cases, the higher the level of anti-Israelism, the more likely it is to be accompanied by antisemitism’.
Labour is the party of anti-Israelism, and none of its members more so than it’s Hamas supporters - ie supporters of those who are committed to the annihilation of Israel and the Israelis (Jews) - of which Corbyn is undoubtedly one.

And if these accusations are so easily debunked, why hasn’t Labour and Corbyn successfully debunked them? They’ve had plenty of time and ample opportunity , yet the suspensions go on and Corbyn continues to stick his head in the sand - well - until last week when he did admit there was indeed a problem with antisemitism in his party.

You also claim this is a desperate and blatant smear campaign from the right, yet it has been people from his own party that have been raising the issue of antisemitism In Labour for a few years now, and it was overwhelmingly people from his own party who decided to protest against it recently.

Your claim that it’s a desperate and blatant right wing smear campaign in the light of the complaints originating from within the Labour Party itself therefore sounds more like a serious case of intense denial as well as a conspiracy theory under the circumstances.

Anyway, I look forward to Labour’s debunking. It’s been a long time coming.
Let it begin already!

 

[Tilly]

A leader with any honour would surely resign.


Labour Party membership PLUMMETS by over 17,000 amid Russia and anti-Semitism controversy

THE LABOUR Party’s membership has plummeted by over 17,000 members amid controversy surrounding the Russian attack in Salisbury and a stream of anti-Semitism allegations, it has been revealed in a mighty blow to Jeremy Corbyn.

By JOSEPH CAREY
PUBLISHED: 01:31, Mon, Apr 2, 2018 | UPDATED: 13:45, Mon, Apr 2, 2018


...The Times also reported last week hundreds of Labour members resigned and over 3,000 failed to renew direct debits.

Labour Party membership PLUMMETS by over 17,000 amid Russia and anti-Semitism controversy

 

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As has been clear for over a year now, Jeremy Corbyn is not a decent man. Jeremy Corbyn is a nasty, morally questionable and dishonest narcissist with a third-rate mind; a man who stands against so much of what the Labour Party ought to exist for. In an era where capitalism has triumphed, identity politics is often the only successful repository of leftist thought, and old-school social democracy can amount to little more than a quaint anachronism supporting the illusion of political choice, it’s hardly a surprise that such a mean-spirited and meaningless faux-leftist ideology has successfully filled the vacated space of left-wing philosophy. It’s the Parliamentary Labour Party’s equivalent of the vile backbench Tory Right. What makes this so much worse is that, well, the Tories would never allow someone like Andrea Leadsom to become Prime Minister. Labour threw up their own Leadsom in order to have a broad debate last year - and this Leadsom won. It’s hilarious for the first few seconds, before you realise the implications this has for the welfare state, the NHS, basic standards of living...just take your pick, really. But the Corbyn problem is not purely one of electoral impotence, even as Owen Smith (pragmatically, rightly) presents it as such. There can be a real malice to Corbyn, as a popular political phenomenon - in terms of both belief and practice.

Apart from the perfectly reasonable anti-austerity stance, the content of Corbynism is often repugnant. There’s the obvious examples, like the tendency to condemn Israel while turning a blind eye to Iran - Christ, in the case of the man himself, even accepting money from Iran to appear on Press TV without daring to speak out against their institutionalised misogyny, homophobia and barbaric culture. There’s the insouciant possible donations to Holocaust deniers, the description of Hamas as “friends”, his apparent belief that the BBC is staffed by “Zionist liars”- and then there’s the broader implications of such behaviour. What’s so upsetting is that it has perverted noble causes, the most salient being the support for the Palestinian people; parts of the Corbynite Left’s turn-a-blind-eye stance towards anti-semitism undermines any chance of helping alleviate their suffering.

Jeremy Corbyn Is a Moral Rot Consuming Labour From the Inside. He Must Be Destroyed | HuffPost

 

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What makes this so much worse is that, well, the Tories would never allow someone like Andrea Leadsom to become Prime Minister. Labour threw up their own Leadsom in order to have a broad debate last year - and this Leadsom won.

I've heard some things about her, I don't know if they were made up or real, but I couldn't imagine her being worse than May. O.k., there are a few people that would be worse, but I have doubts she would be.

Leadsom kind of screwed up when she made the comment about children though.

 

[Tilly]

There’s the insouciant possible donations to Holocaust deniers,

Didn’t know about that, Mindful.


I might have given cash to Holocaust denier, says Corbyn: Labour leadership candidate admits attending 'two or three' events but was unaware of his views at the time

• Labour leadership candidate says he attended events hosted by Paul Eisen
• Eisen is a holocaust denier and publicly denies Nazis killed 6million Jews
• Mr Corbyn also says he may have given Eisen's organisation a donation
• However he now says he has no contact whatsoever with the group

By Tamara Cohen Political Correspondent For The Daily Mail

PUBLISHED: 00:19, 18 August 2015 | UPDATED: 01:23, 18 August 2015



Read more: Jeremy Corbyn says 'I might have given cash to Holocaust denier' | Daily Mail Online
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