Kj, on Facebook, 5 September:
Hey UK Labour-supporter, let me offer a humble suggestion:
If someone is accusing Jeremy Corbyn and portions of the party of being anti-semitic, you ought to just reply "no I don't believe that's true, the track record shows it etc." and leave it at that.
If you instead run with it and end up hammering the point that these suggestions are nothing but the work of the Israel lobby, and part of an elaborate scheme to discredit any opposition set in motion by a cabal placed in multiple levels of the political system - maaaaybe it's time to take a step back and think about how and why you ended up with that conclusion in this particular matter...
From the BBC, 14 September:
A trade union leader has been recorded suggesting that Israel "created" the anti-Semitism row in the Labour Party.
In a recording published by the Independent, PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka suggested the country had created the story to hide what he called its own "atrocities".
A grim document
8 hours ago
4 comments:
Oi, you idiots. Just stop being anti semitic and pretending it is about Israel. It isn't And we know it. For the many, not the Jew. We know that too.
Didn't they catch an Israeli official offering help to discredit British politicians on camera a few years ago?
I think this is pretty standard stuff ie I'm sure the UK does the same in furthering its own interests abroad.
Israeli embassy liase with all the main zionist groups and most influential official Jewish representative bodies like the Jewish board of deputies.
As BJ says, all par for the course.
One more thought on the matter. Israel itself says it is at war, which it uses as a justification for killing so many civilians. Fair enough. There's no doubt that propaganda on both sides figures heavily in their strategies, of which being seen as the innocent victim is the objective.
Smearing critics as racist in order to shut done debate is a winning strategy. To what extent this has been orchestrated against UK politicians (of all parties) is difficult to say.
The result is Labour caved in and signed up to the ihra definition of anti-semitism, so job done, conspiracy or not.
A black day in the history of the UK, IMHO.
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