A Labour canvasser came calling this afternoon:
ME: I can't vote for you because of antisemitism
HER: So you believe the things you've heard?
ME: Do YOU think there's a problem in Labour with antisemitism?
HER: I would just go with what Jeremy Corbyn says.
History will record that senior figures in
@jeremycorbyn
's Labour party did nothing to prevent resurgent Jew-hatred but were able to find the moral fibre necessary to fly into a rage over rice.
My thoughts are with those killed or injured in this horrific act of antisemitic violence, and with their loved ones. We must stand together against hate and terror.
1/7 Jeremy Corbyn is the complete antithesis of the 'man of peace' his followers are working so furiously to make the electorate believe he is. A mediator negotiates with both sides of a conflict. Corbyn never does this.
1/2 But it was done in your name,
@jeremycorbyn
. Your supporters saw you extend the hand of friendship to genocidal antisemites, conspiracy theorists and Holocaust deniers. They saw you frequent secret Facebook groups that were sewers of Jew-hatred.
An awful lot of tweets went into this effort to smear
@RachelRileyRR
for her brave and principled stand against endemic antisemitism within Labour.
@newkindpolitics
would do well to remember that the 'untrustworthy, duplicitous Jew' is a very old and shameful antisemitic trope.
Thoughts on
@RachelRileyRR
's concerted vendetta against the Labour Party over "
#antisemitism
". Riley denies any political allegiance, but this is clearly a political campaign. By her sole focus on Labour she perpetuates the myth that AS is a problem unique to Labour. 1/
The Corbynistas who have turned Labour into a running sewer of antisemitism are panicking. There'll now be a marked increase in attacks such as this.
@emmacpicken
&
@EuanPhilipps
have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with British Jews in this fight. They deserve nothing but praise.
The amount of Jew-hatred packed into this one tweet is staggering:
1. Honest, poor folk v. wealthy Jews
2. The loyalty of British Jews lies elsewhere
3. Antisemitism is faked for political purposes
4. Jews should expect repercussions for their behaviour
So, if I've got this right,
@jeremycorbyn
is too distressed by accusations that he is an antisemite to be able to rouse himself to take action to prove he is no such thing. Presumably, it's less upsetting to let the Jew-hating corner of his cult carry on trashing his reputation.
Thanks to
@EmilyThornberry
, it is now clear that, in
@jeremycorbyn
, we are facing the prospect of a government led by a man who can be rendered impotent by an attack on his character. The UK's enemies will be licking their lips in anticipation.
Just watched
@EddieDempsey
from the RMT state, with a straight face, that Rabbi Lord Sacks is "a far-right extremist" and that "no leader of the Labour Party has done as much as Jeremy Corbyn to combat antisemitism."
We are truly through the looking glass.
Incredibly proud to have been able to contribute to today's outcome. This woman has been responsible for the vilest outpouring of antisemitic hatred I have ever encountered. This is a good day, not just for Jews but for all of society.
Here's what I take from this tweet:
Jews are privileged and therefore cannot be victims
Jews are exaggerating antisemitism
Jews are impinging on the rights of other minorities.
.
@jeremycorbyn
You have told your cult members it is OK to think of Israeli Jews as Nazis. Inevitably, they will see this as licence to treat British Jews who support Israel as Nazis too. When the physical attacks on Jews begin, the responsibility will be yours and yours alone.
I never thought that in my lifetime I'd see a manifesto for dealing with "the Jewish problem". Yet here it is, courtesy of the odious Chris Williamson.
This is what four years of Jeremy Corbyn has unleashed.
Antisemitism is a societal disease. You don't have to be Jewish to recognise it, nor do you have to be Jewish to deplore its toxic effect. The Jewish community owes a debt of gratitude to people like
@EuanPhilipps
who stand shoulder to shoulder with it in this fight.
Trevor Phillips: "And unfortunately, by their behaviour, the Labour leadership seems to have bought this barrel-load of nonsense completely. The lunatics have taken over the asylum and – whatever they think they are doing – are behaving like anti-Semites."
Yes, Owen. We can all see the far right with its knuckle-dragging antisemites. The biggest threat is the leadership of an infiltrated mainstream political party that tries to hide its Jew hatred behind weasel words and the anti-racist credentials of its predecessors.
Ironically, it is Jeremy Corbyn who needs a lesson in history. He appears to have forgotten that it was the consequences of another cultish leader's demonisation of his country's Jews as alien that led to the foundation of the state he so despises.
In other news, David Irving will design the curriculum for Holocaust education in schools, David Icke will lecture at universities on the achievements of Zionism and David Duke will calm alt-Right fears about Jews working to eradicate the white race.
.
@labourpress
now lying shamelessly to protect
@jeremycorbyn
. Why? The evidence is overwhelming. Solid investigative journalism and Corbyn's own Morning Star article reveal him to be a vile man, completely devoid of decency. This is now engraved in the history of
@UKLabour
The Munich widows are being misled. Jeremy did not honour those responsible for the Munich killings.
He and other Parliamentarians went to the Palestinian cemetery in Tunisia to remember the victims of the 1985 Israeli bombing of the PLO headquarters, many of whom were civilians
Yet again,
@jeremycorbyn
has issued a statement in which he maintains the he is "a militant opponent of antisemitism". This raises two questions:
1. How stupid does he think the Jewish community is?
2. What the hell is going on inside his head?
Dear
@jeremycorbyn
, let me save you some trouble:
- You were present but not involved.
- You didn't notice any Jew hatred.
- You only read the group on a small screen.
That should tide you over until the next revelation of your antisemitism.
This is a national disgrace. The racism that pervades
@jeremycorbyn
's core support is driving good, decent people out of Labour. Corbyn's refusal to offer anything other than mealy-mouthed platitudes is destroying a great party before our eyes.
Just heard Glyn Secker - a
@UKLabour
and
@JVoiceLabour
member - tell
#labourpalestine
demo “Jews are in the gutter” and Jews “are the problem.” He was loudly cheered. Disgusting.
Not just a grossly offensive gesture but a futile one as well. This is the face of a man who knows that there is nothing he can now do to stop history recording him as a vile antisemite who destroyed a proud political party and rekindled the fears of the Jewish community.
In memory of the millions of Jewish people, and others, who perished in the Holocaust. Let us never allow antisemitism or any other form of racism to disfigure our society.
My message in the Holocaust Education Trust's Book of Commitment.
@HolocaustUK
“Zionism is the enemy of peace”
Everywhere you look, Corbyn is surrounded by advisors, lieutenants and supporters whose contempt for the Jewish people is palpable. Shame on those MPs who denounce antisemitism on social media yet still campaign for him.
Camden Momentum calls for the removal of
@jonlansman
from Momentum...😳 Excellent resolution criticising how he stabbed anti-Zionists,
@DerbyChrisW
and
@JVoiceLabour
in the back. More motions soon, please!
This is where those who dedicate themselves to spreading the foul slander that Jews have defrauded the world by "inventing" the Holocaust have brought us. They may not pull the trigger themselves but they gleefully provide the bullets for others to fire.
I'd have thought the biggest threat to a Corbyn-led government is Corbyn - a man who is paralysed into inaction by personal criticism, who hates our allies while loving our enemies, and who has created an institutionally-racist party.
Excellent piece by
@mishtal
on Owen Jones' shameful mocking of a Jew who is planning to leave the UK due to the antisemitism of the man who could be the next PM.
Hey,
@OwenJones84
. Why are you so indecently eager to boost an outlier who believes he knows better than 31 IHRA countries, 68 Rabbis, the government, the police, over 100 councils and the London Assembly? This makes you complicit in what is happening to British Jews.
No,
@ClaudiaWebbe
. Jeremy Corbyn's entire political life has been rooted in an extreme left ideology that has taught him it is acceptable to make common cause with genocidal antisemites and proscribed terrorists and then lie about it.
False allegations? You are disgrace.
Incredible combined machinery of state, political & mainstream elite join together, without any regard to victims to make false allegations & pretend claims of no other political news of worth. Jeremy Corbyn’s entire political life is based on pursuit of peace, fairness & justice
As far as
@jeremycorbyn
is concerned, antisemitism is something that comes wrapped in a skinhead with a swastika on top. His almost messianic belief in his own now discredited anti-racist credentials prevents him seeing the antisemitism of his own politics
We already knew that .
@jeremycorbyn
was:
a MILITANT hard-left extremist;
An OPPONENT of the Jewish community;
Mired in ANTISEMITISM.
We now know he is also an embarrassingly bad liar.
BREAKING: statement from Corbyn - "I described those pro-Israel activists as Zionists, in the accurate political sense and not as a euphemism for Jewish people”; but adds he is now “more careful” with the term, because it has been “increasingly hijacked by antisemites”.
Four years ago, he tried to sue me along with eleven other Twitter users for calling him an antisemite. He failed miserably. Clearly, he is still miserable.
John McDonnell is cut from the same cloth as Jeremy Corbyn. There's dialogue and there's honouring and praying for murderous terrorists. The latter is nailing your colours to the mast of one side in a very public way. How many times has Corbyn engaged in dialogue with Israel?
Jeremy Corbyn has devoted his life to promoting justice & peace &,yes,at times that means meeting people who haven’t shared those ideals because only dialogue can lead to peace.Having a politician like Netanyahu join the media feeding frenzy is a line in the sand.Enough is enough
I had the pleasure of sitting down with Tania, a young Jewish Labour member, to discuss the meaning of Passover.
I wish Jewish communities in Britain and across the world Chag Sameach.
#Passover
#Pesach
First thing leader of the opposition’s office should have done was examine record of 68 Rabbis signing letter. With most it is going to be a question of agreeing to disagree. Others like Sachs, will be right wing ultra-nationalists. Labour shouldn’t concede to such voices.
The issue is not, and never has been, Labour voters. Antisemitism is rife among a extremist section of the membership that entered the Party on the back of Corbyn's radical left-wing politics. They embrace conspiracy theory and see "Zionists" at the heart of every social problem.
I urge anybody who is still sceptical about reports of Labour's descent into a running sewer of antisemitism to read the resignation letter of Richard Horton, a one-time supporter of Jeremy Corbyn.
A proud Labour member with a public profile takes a stand against the Jew-hating cancer spreading through her party and she is driven to this. Mob rule by members of the Cult of
@jeremycorbyn
and his 'kinder, gentler politics.
#LabourAntisemitism
The Labour Party is taking the issue of antisemitism SO seriously that its chairman doesn't have a bloody clue what's going on. If he adds a zero to the 100 complaints he thinks have been made, he still won't be close.
"How many have you kicked out for anti-Semitism?"
@afneil
asks Labour Party chair
@IanLaveryMP
who said: "I can see the figure increasing dramatically"
#bbcdp
This ice-cold, implacable indifference to the harm done to Jews by antisemitic abuse is the main barrier that has to be overcome before the Labour Party can rehabilitate itself. Corbyn's face during the debate told us it is going to be a long old haul.
It's time this vile, divisive demagogue started speaking in plain English.
Who does he think is behind the campaign?
What are the precise consequences he foresees?
Who exactly does he think will suffer them?
Typical nonsense from a far left idiot. If you believe in the right of the Jewish people to self-determination, you must also support Netanyahu's policies. The cult is starting to resemble something from a Stephen King novel.
All over the world, decent people understand that the Holocaust must be remembered as a warning of what man is capable of.
@jeremycorbyn
's obsessive hatred of Israel renders him impatient for it to be forgotten. His contempt for the Jewish people shames his party and the country.
THREAD - In 2015 in the run up to the Labour leadership election
@JeremyCorbyn
gave an interview to
@AsaWinstanley
of Electronic
@intifada
. Corbyn argued that EU support for Israel is because of the Holocaust & that as the older generation dies he hopes things will change
A typically horrendous take from the person who defended the desecrator of the Warsaw Ghetto.
The intent behind the chant has always been both antisemitic and murderous. As this becomes ever more widely understood, the rush by certain commentators to sanitise it is shameful.
Scaremongering about "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is intended to make the cause of equal rights and freedoms for Palestinians seem frightening, and obscure the fact that there is de facto a one state solution in place at the expense of Palestinian people.
Everything that is warped and repulsive about the radical Left's obsession with the world's only Jewish state is encapsulated in one vile tweet from
@rodadams46
. I tend not to shock easily these days but this is beyond the pale.
An alternative view. The number of antisemites supporting Jeremy Corbyn is out of proportion to the % antisemites in the UK population. Which explains vile racists like
@Roger_sail
The deceitful, untrustworthy Jew. Now where have I heard that before? The Labour Party will never be a safe place for Jews while people holding views like this continue to exist within it.
Impossible to overstate how serious this is. It's now open season on Jews if you're a Labour member or supporter. The implications for British Jews are dire.
He must have missed the antisemitic hate-fest that was last summer's Al Quds march, replete with supporters of Hezbollah parading its flags and genocidal slogans through the streets of London. I guess it's no threat when only Jews are targeted.
@MikeGapes
When were we last under threat from Hezbollah Mike? Are we under threat now? Is Hezbollah actually any real threat to the UK & it's citizens/subjects?
2/2 They watched you defend a virulently antisemitic mural. They believed this is what you wanted. Until you can acknowledge that , and apologise for that, your words are hollow, meaningless platitudes that add insult to injury.
In attempting to whitewash Labour's grotesque antisemitism crisis by wilfully misrepresenting CAA's research,
@BarryGardiner
has, at a stroke, undermined his excellent speech in last week's HoC debate on antisemitism. Many thought he was sincere. It now appears that he was not.
Those "pantomime antics" are expressions of the visceral fear felt by an entire community, It is because people like
@JeremyJHardy
are so smugly dismissive of those fears that Jews now question their future in what used to be one of the safest countries in which to be Jewish.
@hugorifkind
Voting opened a while before his outburst. And I’m afraid the pantomime antics of Hodge, Sacks, the Chronicle and others have hardened people and made them not listen properly.
I'm somewhat more than just irritated at the use of 'internal Labour matters' to describe an epidemic of antisemitism that should be a national cause for concern.
I'm becoming increasingly irritated at what appears to be the MSM obsession with internal Labour matters.
In the meantime - the damage inflicted on our people by this Tory Govt - goes unreported - or at best - receives a cursory mention.
The message here is that a Jew's concerns about antisemitism are not to be heeded until they have proactively voiced their opposition to all other forms of bigotry. We really do need to learn our place.
@RachelRileyRR
Two things Rachel.
You aren’t a journalist are you? Apologies if you are and I’m mistaken
And secondly I’ve literally never seen you mention Islamophobia. The inference would be that you don’t care about it very much
"Seumas, I don't know what to do. The Jews all hate me and are calling me an antisemite. What can I do to fix this?"
"That's easy, Jezza. Let's hijack Chanukah and use it as a vehicle for promoting our immigration policy."
This all began with a tweet about antisemitism in the Labour Party. Something that a British Jew cannot do without submitting to interrogation by a would-be Torquemada on his rabid views about Israel. I have not encountered a finer exponent of the Livingstone Formulation.
This has to be some kind of a record. Three separate antisemitic conspiracy theories captured in less than a dozen words:
- New World Order
- The PM is a secret Jew
- Rothschilds
A loud and proud Corbynite.
Or, to put it another way, "These buggers aren't going to shut up about the antisemitic sewage coursing through through the Labour Party. We'd better try to discredit them."
@simonmaginn
@SCynic1
How dare you tell a Jew that their outrage is 'patently synthetic'? How dare you demand that they lay bare their pain and fear on demand, for your personal evaluation? What other minority would you speak to this way?
Dominic Sandbrook on Jeremy Corbyn: "Ever since he won the Labour leadership, he has struck me as a Dickensian figure, a monster of sanctimonious hypocrisy, at once complacent, conceited and utterly cynical."
Rachel Riley also spoke about the way in which the aggressors in this war on the UK's Jewish community work to portray themselves as the victims. Thanks to
@shaunjlawson
for providing a timely practical example of that ploy.
Entirely as expected, because she's nothing if not 100% predictable,
@RachelRileyRR
used the occasion of a speech in Parliament to (1) double down on her gaslighting of the entire Labour membership; (2) smear and lie through her teeth about me.
Revolting. When will
@jeremycorbyn
understand that until he apologises for his own words and actions, every meaningless gesture such as this one is viewed by the Jewish comment as nothing more than yet another two-fingered salute?
This bizarre clutching at straws, this desperate hope against hope, this futile holding out for an improbable Damascene conversion only serve to prolong the problem. It's who he is. Waiting for Corbyn to stop being Corbyn is like waiting for Godot. It's never going to happen.
We've reached peak lunacy. He's either a raging, terrorist-loving antisemite, in which case, stand down, or he's an incompetent old buffoon who doesn't know what he's doing, in which case, STAND DOWN!
Worth reading this article. It's utter rubbish, but a textbook example of the lengths Corbynites will go to to misrepresent Labour's antisemitism crisis and to accuse Jews of bad faith and duplicitous conduct.
My latest: Labour's right and pro-Israel groups have made common cause on a supposed 'anti-semitism crisis' to bring down Jeremy Corbyn. At stake is not only support for the Palestinian cause, but a vision of the future based on social justice
Tweeted with no sense of irony, apparently. The duplicitous carving up of the IHRA redefinition is a betrayal of British Jews that permits anti-Israel obsessives to engage freely in certain types of antisemitism. Trying to spin it as positive is just adding insult to injury.
Leo McKinstry worked for Corbyn for ten years. This is his assessment: "Profoundly unfit for the highest office, he is a toxic ideological extremist without a clue about how to govern Britain."
Dan Hodges sums up in twenty words the state of the Labour Party today : "All that's required is for the Jew to issue an oath of loyalty. And she will be left in peace."
"An historian reviewing old reports has unearthed a 2010 account of Jeremy Corbyn using Holocaust Memorial Day to host an event promoting the narrative that Israel is engaged in acts comparable to Nazi war crimes.”
When you're a political leader, hiding in your bunker from the onslaught of the relentless revelations of your antisemitic history, what you really need is the vocal support of an even more reckless Jew-hater like Scott Nelson aka
@SocialistVoice
A level of hypocrisy and sanctimony from
@jeremycorbyn
that will require new examples to be added to the International Definition of Chutzpah. Irredeemably stupid and downright vicious.
Tomorrow Labour MEPs will vote to hold Viktor Orban's government in Hungary to account. The Conservatives must do the same, and
@Theresa_May
should condemn his attacks on judicial and media independence, denial of refugee rights, and pandering to antisemitism and Islamophobia.
I will not be remotely surprised if he delivers it just before Shabbat, leaving Jewish communal organisations unable to respond for 24 hours, while JVL and the usual suspects jump all over it unchallenged.
I hear Jeremy Corbyn is now recording a video address on antisemitism today, as he doesn't want to wait until next week to deliver a speech. The Sunday papers being a clear concern.
.
@jeremycorbyn
's anti-racist credentials have been thoroughly discredited. Surely the revelation that he has paid tribute to people who worked hand in glove with Nazis would be a killer blow?
@GnasherJew
@jeremycorbyn
I’d go further. It is devastating to read that he feels he has been ‘tolerated’ in the country of his birth. There is nothing to tolerate; he is a British citizen.
People such as
@IanMearnsMP
who attempt to gaslight Jews over their well-founded fears about Jeremy Corbyn's associations, deeds, words and core ideology must surely know that history is not going to look kindly on them. This is either idiocy or Jew-baiting.
I'm living in hope that, at some point when Corbyn parrots his 'peace through dialogue' nonsense, a broadcaster will man up and ask him how often he has met with representatives of the Israeli government in the pursuit of peace.
This is hugely significant. Thanks to the work of
@antisemitism
, the truth about the scandal of antisemitism in the Labour Party will now be exposed to public scrutiny.
Scott Nelson aka
@SocialistVoice
, who likes to tweet about the "Jewish blood" of M&S and Tesco is cynically spreading misinformation here. The polls show that Labour members (not voters, members) are more antisemitic than members of any other party.
The shameless mendacity here is jaw-dropping. 85% of British Jews and a third of the electorate believe
@jeremycorbyn
to be an antisemite. He is hiding behind a tiny minority of Jews whose views are completely unrepresentative of the mainstream.
This is a complete misreading of the situation. The Definition was the final straw, not the whole bale. This is the result of three years of increasing contempt for and hostility towards Britain's Jews by the Corbynite faction.
Quite remarkable that you apportion blame equally.
6/ I have already said on what should happen - a building of mutual trust through a conflict resolution approach (). None of that has happened and the two ‘sides’ have become embroiled in an entrenched argument over a complicated definition of antisemitism
"Mr Corbyn said that nobody should seek to doubt the motives of those who allege antisemitism in the Labour Party, and on that basis he should demand that Mr McCluskey be investigated by the Party immediately. Of course Mr Corbyn will not do that [...]"
"How many pro-Israeli events has he addressed; how many Jewish victims of Palestinian terrorism has he commemorated? His self-defined role as a go-between is a total sham. [...] Mr Corbyn has consorted with extremists because he is himself an extremist."
Possibly the future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and his chief advisor, sharing a platform with a man who believes suicide bombing to be a noble enterprise. The close relationship between a man who advocates the murder of Jews and Corbyn and Milne is an abomination.