Karen Glaser's boyfriend made the mistake of saying that all Jews are rich, but does that mean he is antisemitic? He just sounds immature.
Karen Glaser believes there is a problem of antisemitism in the Labour party and that Jeremy Corbyn is antisemitic. So, having a problem with Israel's treatment of the Palestinians makes a person antisemitic. Karen Glaser probably genuinely believes that what she is saying is correct, but why did the New Statesman print this article? It seems obvious to me that this has been published to undermine Corbyn and the left which has always had sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians. The UK is free country and we are allowed to hold such political views.
This is article is full of nonsense like, 'the Jews did 9/11', but I don't think many left wingers say this. Although some of us on the left are agnostic about 9/11 and want a better explanation than the official narrative.
This article is set up to be a straw doll and is awful journalism. Karen Glaser's boyfriend sounds very immature, just like lots of young people. We don't get told how old Karen Glaser and her boyfriend are, they could be teens - still children!
I criticise Britain all the time but does that make me a racist against British people? No, it's the state I am criticising . When I say the U.S bombed South East Asia back to the stone ages am I criticising the American people? No, I'm criticising the American ruling elite, the establishment?
He looked slowly around the living room of my freshly painted flat and then gestured in exaggerated fashion to the books and ceramics crammed on shelves, to the canvases on the walls and my kids’ instruments strewn on the floor. “Well, your life looks OK to me,” he said.
“Lots of Jews had nice apartments in 1930s Berlin,” I retorted. “The pessimists among them went to Hollywood. Need I spell out what happened to the optimists.”
It was an easy, if apposite, riposte. But I was done with patient argument and trying to appear less emotional than I felt: done with trying, I am almost ashamed to say, not to appear the hyperbolic Jew of anti-Semitic ridicule. It was 2am and I had been arguing about Corbyn and the problem of left-wing anti-Semitism for almost three hours. I was nearing breaking point.
My adversary was Sean*, the guy I’d been seeing since January – by now, it was September – and who I really liked. So when he’d asked earlier in the evening if we should meet next Saturday and I said no, that I had a dinner date with a cousin who was over from Israel, and Sean replied, laughing, “Ooh, do you think she’ll be scared to set foot on our Jewish unfriendly soil?”, I asked him calmly what he meant. And when he replied, still chuckling, that Labour’s anti-Semitism had been massively overstated, that it was essentially a tawdry attempt to smear Corbyn, I took a deep breath and answered him properly.
I explained to my lover that this is no laughing matter, that there is consensus across Anglo-Jewry that there is a serious problem of anti-Semitism in Labour, and this means he should take it seriously too.
I said that if Tory politicians had done half the things to any other ethnic group that Corbyn has done to the Jews, leftists would be baying for blood.
And when he asked, as Corbynistas always do, what exactly Jeremy has done, I went through the grim list: his claim that Hamas and Hezbollah are dedicated to peace and justice, even though Hamas’s charter calls for the destruction of the Jews; his defence of the blood libeller Raed Salah and the conspiracist Rev Stephen Sizer, who blamed Israel for 9/11; his membership of Facebook groups where deeply anti-Semitic posts are the norm; and his siding with those behind the now infamous Nazi-style mural showing hook-nosed anti-Semitic caricatures, getting rich on the backs of the world’s poor.
New Statesman
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Kaivey I read your preliminary comment, but I am still not sure why you posted this article. What is your central point?
Incidentally I don't claim that "Jews did 9-11," but neither do I believe the US government's claim that that "Arabs with box cutters" did it.
Criminal investigation into Labour now:
https://news.sky.com/story/met-police-begin-criminal-investigation-into-labour-antisemitism-claims-11542357?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
Maybe jail....
I was outraged by it. I saw it as propaganda against Corbyn and his followers.
The Guardian printed this:
'LBC received an internal Labour dossier detailing 45 cases involving messages posted by party members on social media, including one that read: “We shall rid the Jews who are a cancer on us all.'
The broadcaster passed the leaked material to the former senior police officer Mark Chishty to review, who said 17 instances should have been reported to the police for investigation, and another four were potential race hate crimes.'
These 45 people are stupid idiots and deserve to be hounded out of the labour party. But this doesn't mean that there is a problem with antisemitism in the Labour Party as a whole. I still believe this is a set up to stop Corbyn getting into power.
‘I was outraged by it. I saw it as propaganda against Corbyn and his followers.”
Of course it is propaganda. My question is why are average people so terrified of the label “Anti-Semite”? The answer, in part, is that this fear is a product of Western self-righteousness regarding WW II. Because of the holocaust™ myth, National Socialist Germany was “pure evil,” which means we are “pure goodness.” In order to sustain our imaginary “pure goodness,” we must revere Jews. We may not question anything to do with Jews, especially their atrocities in Israel. To violate this taboo is to be an “anti-Semite,” which is worse than being a serial rapist.
In short, the extreme power of Jews is a product of our own self-righteousness.
“These 45 people are stupid idiots and deserve to be hounded out of the labour party.”
Ignore this clumsy nonsense. Public figures do not share emails with each other that say, “We shall rid the Jews who are a cancer on us all.”
Not even Neo-Nazis in their blogs are so blatant.
Wait a minute…Karen GLASER? That’s a Jewish name. I just now saw that.
No wonder she kicked her boyfriend out when he questioned her lies about the Labour Party. Shame on him for giving her any attention in the first place.
I rewrote my article, Konrad, to try to make it more clear. Yes, Karen Glaser is a jew.
When the articles says 45 incidents of antisemitism that might not mean 45 people, but rather, a few people putting out a number of comments. There's always going to be a few bad people in any party (or in any group for that matter) who do, and say, stupid and horrible things, but this is being blown out of proportion to get Corbyn.
"When the articles says 45 incidents of antisemitism that might not mean 45 people, but rather, a few people putting out a number of comments. "
Assuming any such comments were emailed at all.
Below is a comment for you. Imagine the global outcry if this had been directed at Jews...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSrhJGGDqx0
A clip appeared on TV in the UK of Corbyn on his bike turning left at a junction which was clearly marked "No left turn". So he's a bad, bad man far as I'm concerned...:-)
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