Londonrake:
I don't believe that these accusations have tended to target Corbyn specifically for the sin of antisemitism. It's more the case that under his leadership there's been a significant increase in the phenomena and that he has done little, beyond patronising and non-effective words, to deal with it. The man's dilemma is his most loyal, far-left members nowadays are on the whole a group of very pro-ME, rabidly anti-Israel/banker types (well, a bit like you! )
If you understood the Banking and financial system and who those at the top of the pyramid are ...... I don’t see that saying something that is basically true can be anti-Semitic? It is not the Jewish bit that is significant, it is the Zionist bit .... as I have pointed out to you before there is a difference. Judaism = Religion ...... Zionism = Political. The latter has always hidden behind the former to capitalise on past anti-Semitism to gain sympathy to cover their political and ideological aims.
So sorry, I don’t think these antisemitic accusations are anything other than a political convenience. As I said ..... I have seen no anti-Semitic insults expressed by Labour or their party leader. The accusations are based almost 100% on Zionists/Israeli criticism and references being classified as anti-Semitic and I don’t think they are.
It doesn't sound like you watched the disastrous Neill/Corbyn interview. The reason it appears the man is pulling out of 7 further such planned events. The first 10 minutes or so concentrated upon the subject of antisemitism in the Labour party.
I didn’t watch it all ..... but come on, Corbyn is not smart talking enough to tackle Andrew Neill, the man is a professional Rottweiler! You forget that BJ is avoiding ALL such interviews! I think Neill is an offensive interviewer who pushes an agenda and inevitably uses loaded or deliberately leading questions to get the scenario he wants to achieve. That’s his job .... it’s how he makes his money!
Neill challenged Corbyn 3 times to answer whether “Rothschild’s Zionists run Israel and world governments” was an antisemitic statement. Only upon his third, persistent, attempt did he get the answer that it indeed was. Neil pointed out that they were the words of a Labour member and former council candidate and that despite being investigated for a whole year, the man hadn’t been suspended from the party for it. Corbyn had previously said that anyone who’d been antisemitic had been suspended or expelled from the party.
Why is
THAT an anti-Semitic statement ........ it’s true? Zionists
DO run the Banking System and the Knesset, and Rothschilds are Jewish Zionists! Read the Balfour Declaration! It is addressed to ...... Baron Rothschild. Once again I do not see that as anti-Semitic!
Neill then pointed out a Labour woman who had posted a video how the holocaust was a myth. After an investigation her punishment was a written warning.
You have to be careful when talking about an accusation of the ‘
Holocaust as a Myth’ and taking it seriously! Just like with the association of Jews with Zionism. It is a play on words, some thing you excel at, and any questioning of events during the Holocaust is treated as
'A denial ... a myth'! The Holocaust has become an exclusive ‘
Jewish’ Holocaust and exploited by the Zionists ....... but Jews were not the only people that were affected by it! My Polish wife lost her Aunt, Uncle and their three children in Auswitch for protecting Jews! In reality, there are as many actual Holocaust deniers as there are members of the Flat Earth Society!
Earlier that day Corbyn had attended a Labour event on “race and faith”, where he’d said antisemitism was vile and unacceptable. And yet, two of the prospective Labour candidates sitting alongside him had themselves been accused of it.
So what did these ‘
anti-Semitic’ Labour candidates say that was actually anti-Semitic? There is very often a wide distance between accusation and the facts. Trace Corbyn's history on anti-Semitism over the years and what he said was what he is and what he stands for.
Neill asked Corbyn, as leader of the Labour party, whether he wished to take the opportunity to apologise to the Jewish community for such things. He did neither but launched into a banal, set-piece speech upon which Neill abandoned the subject all together.
My response would have been
....”Apologise? For what? How about a bit of detail to support your insinuation there is something to apologise for?” If you can’t see how all this ‘
anti-Semitism’ is taking a certain direction, then that is your choice but it does not make your opinion any more valid than mine or anyone elses!
Quite a few long standing members of the Labour party, including some of its MPs have left because of their unhappiness with the subject. Such things can be dismissed by confining the discussion to Israel and the evil Jewish bankers/media oligarchs but to suggest that there is no such problem is risible.
The sarcasm sneaks in! Evil Bankers ..... who just happen to be Jewish? But some are Christian or even evil Atheists Bankers! You obviously think they are all nice people ..... but you have only met the hired help! I suggest you don’t know enough about the financial system and Banking to have a credible opinion as to whose-who nor how it works.
I think the most pro-Corbyn poster on this forum is Lordo. His rote-learned outpourings would make Momentum proud. If you want to get a glimpse of the mind set I recommend you read his post 3 above this. That pretty much says it all. That's the sort of thing you are apparently in denial about.
I think LORDO’s rather quite demented approach represents a very small minority when it comes to rhetoric ........... but give people like him the reason to believe in fantasies and that is when ordinary people do turn down the wrong path! That is just what these generally hyped, distorted and manipulative anti-Semite accusations and most often unsubstanciated stories are breeding ..... it has happened before and then the problem was Zionism working behind the scenes not the Jews in general but they got all the resentment and the reprisals.