It’s the hypocrisy that gets you
Your web editor writes:
The Labour Party has called its annual conference over Rosh Hashanah with not the slightest concern for the ability of its Jewish members to participate fully.
Conference runs from 24th – 27th September with the Jewish New Year starting at sunset on the evening of 25th and running till the evening of Tuesday 27th.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Community Security Trust, the Jewish Leadership Council and, not least, the Jewish Labour Movement would have collectively expressed their outrage at Jeremy Corbyn’s blatant disregard of – if not utter contempt for – Jewish sensibilities.
But, hang on. Jeremy Corbyn isn’t leader of the Labour party. Keir Starmer is.
And there has not been the slightest murmur of disapproval from the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Community Security Trust, the Jewish Leadership Council, and the Jewish Labour Movement…
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PS: we read in the Jewish News report about the new three-part Al Jazeera Investigation, The Labour Files, that – shock, horror – “The second and third episodes of investigation, focusing on discrediting antisemitism claims, will being aired as Jewish families celebrate Rosh Hashanah.”
Its author Lee Harpin somehow manages to ignore the fact that the Party Conference will also be “aired as Jewish families celebrate Rosh Hashanah”.
And that the Al Jazeeera programmes, scheduled for earlier in the week, were delayed because of the Queen’s death…
Yes, Corbyn was actually criticised along those lines once.
I just checked the JCs website to see if they’ve posted anything about the upcoming Al Jazeera documentary, and there doesn’t appear to be anything (not YET, anyway), and in the process spotted the following article from earlier this month headlined ‘Boris defeated Corbyn but he may have saved Labour’, with the sub-headline ‘British Jews owe Johnson a debt of gratitude but how long will it last?’. Here are several clips from it:
There is a legacy few political obituarists are mentioning: he stopped Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister. The three years that followed were marked by dishonesty, decadence and decline, and yet had these failings been 10 times what they were, or 10 hundred times, they would have been preferable to the abomination of Corbyn in Number 10.
Since then, there has been a change of leadership and Labour acts and sounds like Labour again. Although there is still a power of work to be done in rooting out antisemites, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour has made progress.
He gave the far-left all the far-left really wants from politics, a betrayal narrative, and in returning them to the fringe, he made it possible for the soft-left to revert to form. After four agonising years, they could go back to indulging the far-left as well-meaning, if excitable, comrades rather than what they are: enemies of social democracy.
https://www.thejc.com/news/politics/boris-defeated-corbyn-but-he-may-have-saved-labour-rXERwq6l1OEX6mwRtxFRZ
‘enemies of social democracy’….. how hilariously ironic and amusing, and I bet they’re still laughing about it! Yep, it amuses them no end to have the power to ‘create’ reality and turn everything on it’s head! And dupe and deceive people en masse!
The BoD and JLM and CAA and LAA and CST et al and the Jewish newspapers and the MSM journalists and editors *ALL* know that if Jeremy Corbyn posed a threat – SOMEHOW??? – to British Jews, there is no way on this planet JVL would have supported him when he was leader, and as they still DO.
I’m STILL waiting to hear what this ‘existential threat’ would have amounted to had he become PM, but of course I/we never WILL, because it’s all complete and utter black propaganda bunkum, conjured up by anti-democratic dark fascist forces.
Playing on the historical fears of the Jewish population is BEYOND evil!
As time goes by Jeremy is seen to be right on most issues. The state of the world at the moment demands fundamental change. The sort of change made by the Attlee government after 1945. The leadership ,however seems to be terrified of speaking out. Like rabbits in headlights they seem to be paralyzed. The country has to offered hope as they were after WW2. The Labour Party gave them that hope . I sometimes wonder if the leadership would have refused to support that manifesto had they been around after WW2.
I was always puzzled by claims of the ‘existential threat to the Jewish community in the UK’ posed by Corbyn, but I have finally tracked down a explanation for the danger he posed. I found it at my local library, in the fiction section for under-threes.
And I also came across the following on the Morning Star website a bit earlier:
‘CLP delegate expelled days before Labour conference after 30 years’ membership’
A DELEGATE to the Labour conference expelled just days ahead of its opening in Liverpool has spoken to the Morning Star of her “sadness” at the decision and the loss of representation it means for her constituency party (CLP).
Christchurch delegate Carol Wilcox, her CLP’s only delegate to the conference, was informed on Wednesday that she had been excluded from the party after more than 30 years’ active membership.
Her “offence” was having shared online posts by proscribed groups Labour Against the Witch Hunt and the Labour in Exile Network — before they were banned.
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/clp-delegate-expelled-days-labour-conference-after-30-years-membership
I’d forgotten all about this! (which I just happened to come across whilst doing some research):
EXCLUSIVE: Jewish News editor slams his paper’s front page attack on Corbyn: ‘It’s repulsive. This is a lifelong anti-racist we’re trashing’
Today, The Canary publishes our exclusive Q&A with Stephen Oryszczuk, foreign editor of Jewish News. His publication was one of three Jewish weekly newspapers that jointly accused Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of being an “existential threat” to British Jews.
As a senior journalist at the paper, and a person committed to fighting antisemitism, he says of the action:
It’s repulsive. This is a dedicated anti-racist we’re trashing. I just don’t buy into it at all.
https://www.thecanary.co/exclusive/2018/08/06/exclusive-jewish-news-editor-slams-his-papers-front-page-attack-on-corbyn-its-repulsive-this-is-a-lifelong-anti-racist-were-trashing/
Anyone supportive of apartheid in Israel/Palestine will make Jewish people look like racists. This just reinforces negative stereotypes. I am constantly telling people that ANC Jews were jailed alongside Nelson Mandela – they are often literally relieved to hear this. White supremacists hide their racism and anti-Semitism behind support of Israel which has everything to do with the desire to implement similar oppressive policies themselves and nothing whatsoever to do with any kind of anti racism. So shameful that this nonsense of the mono ethnic nation state should be championed by the supposed representatives of those that suffered the most from this most pernicious brand of inhuman stupidity. The rest of us all have so called representatives who would behave the same way. What a vile bunch of fair weather ‘friends’ they currently are . Such is the worst side of human nature. Thank you so much for standing up to this and enduring the backlash.