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Israel's right to exist

Poor Jeremy.  Be sure your quotes will find you out!

Barbara Shillabeer ● 2539d13 Comments

"Poor Jeremy.  Be sure your quotes will find you out!"Well come on, spit it out!

David Ainsworth ● 2539d

🚨 BREAKING: Video emerges of @jeremycorbyn bashing the @BBCWorld on Iranian TV for “believing that Israel has a right to exist.” https://t.co/OounUIxtyi

Paul Game ● 2539d

So are you defending the BBC against accusations of bias now, Mr Game?The BBC does have a lot of pressures upon it:-https://bbcwatch.org/

David Ainsworth ● 2539d

Do you believe that the UK has a "right to exist"?

David Ainsworth ● 2539d

Barbara & Paul: I’ve played the clip several times and it is quite clear that Corbyn does not question Israel’s right to exist. He is taking about pressure on the BBC and mentions the “Right to exist” among a list of other factors. Nothing he said in that video was unfair, inaccurate or offensive or anti-semetic. It was very measured and believable. You  will need to do better than that. Incidentally you should be more careful when posting here on how you caption your contributions.Nick

Nicholas Evans ● 2539d

They don't need to do any better. "It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog". Nationally you can expect Leaver and antisemitism mini-explosions every couple of days until the election. Today's supposedly current one from 2011 was first issued on PoliticsHome on the 20th August 2018 (doubtless available for years before that too), but it will still work to feign outrage to.https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/jeremy-corbyn/news/97456/watch-jeremy-corbyn-says-israel

David Ainsworth ● 2539d

This piece by Gideon Levy in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz is interesting, and rather different from the stuff pushed by the Corbyn-bashers in the rabid right-wing press and elsewhere. For example, this:"Corbyn is not an anti-Semite. He never was. His real sin is his staunch position against injustice in the world, including the version Israel perpetrates. Today this is anti-Semitism. The Hungarian Viktor Orban, the Austrian Freedom Party and the extreme right in Europe are not the danger to Jews. Corbyn is the enemy. The new and efficient strategy of Israel and the Zionist establishment brands every seeker of justice as an anti-Semite, and any criticism of Israel as hatred of Jews. Corbyn is a victim of this strategy, which threatens to paralyze and silence Europe with regard to Israel."The full article can be read at https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-contract-on-corbyn-1.8192769

Richard Carter ● 2539d

'feign outrage'?I wasn't planning on posting as I am tired to death of fighting antisemitism from wherever it comes, this but in view of this thread perhaps it is timelyhttps://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/11/open-letter-sir-richard-evans-labour-s-anti-semitism-cannot-be-disregarded?fbclid=IwAR20kthzrqRi7m9988bbKvIClWT-LGuuKMRwjgN_fG0bShQ0gBZedGBd3-E

Lucille Grant ● 2539d

Lucille: one link for another. I suggest you look at Anthony Lerman’s piece on how the Tories are exploiting Jewish fears over anti-semitism.https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/tories-exploiting-jewish-fears-antisemitism/Nick

Nicholas Evans ● 2539d

Yes I read this article Richard - I have never stated  Corbyn is an anti semite (but then I'm not a rabid right winger!) However I firmly believe that he has enabled antisemitism  to reign supreme within the Labour Party and no doubt  MSM is jumping on the bandwagon to whip up feeling against him. The party would not be being investigated by the EHRC if there wasn't good reason for doing so.Having said that, many non Jewish people I know who have voted Labour all their lives  won't vote Labour  because they feel Corbyn has been a weak Opposition leader and that he has never made his view clear on Brexit.  The promise of a second referendum is possibly too little and too late. In any case to think he can agree a new deal with the EU in three months is wishful thinking on his part.

Lucille Grant ● 2539d

THE PROMISED LAND OF ORGANISED CRIME.What about the Palestinians  - should they hand over their homeland to spivs like Avigdor Lieberman and a million others from the former Soviet Union, paedos from the US and fraudsters from the UK?https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09TELAVIV1098_a.html

Timothy Horgan ● 2539d

Do you live in Putney? Are you this Timothy Horgan, by any chance? Seen on Twitter July 10, 2017.Eye On Antisemitism@AntisemitismEyeIshmail Patel /Timothy Horgan instigates the expulsion of a kippah wearing Jew from #palestineexpo #antisemitism (4)Why would you do this? Is  a Jew not allowed at Palestine Expo?

Lucille Grant ● 2539d

Is this wikileaks link supposed to be helpful to the Palestinians? I'd say that it is very counterproductive.

David Ainsworth ● 2539d