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We hear a lot about what ‘many Jews believe’ about Corbyn and the left.
This widely cited Jewish Chronicle poll, for instance, found that 85% of UK Jews thought Corbyn himself is antisemitic.
thejc.com/news/uk-news/m…
This widely cited Jewish Chronicle poll, for instance, found that 85% of UK Jews thought Corbyn himself is antisemitic.
thejc.com/news/uk-news/m…
Now. Anyone is of course at liberty to ‘believe’, or claim to ‘believe’ anything they like.
I could claim to ‘believe’ there are tiny invisible rabbits that live in my beard, for instance.
Does that make it true?
Does that make the tiny invisible beard-rabbits real?
I could claim to ‘believe’ there are tiny invisible rabbits that live in my beard, for instance.
Does that make it true?
Does that make the tiny invisible beard-rabbits real?
No of course it doesn’t, because ‘beliefs’ are not what decide reality.
Facts are, and the facts are perfectly clear: Corbyn is not, and has never been, an antisemite, and even BBC were legally forced to concede it.
Facts are, and the facts are perfectly clear: Corbyn is not, and has never been, an antisemite, and even BBC were legally forced to concede it.
Good afternoon #ItWasAScam
I am asking for a moment if your time and, ask you to read this thread.
I have spent ages recently asking @simonmaginn to partake of a structured debate to show his evidence of the supposed Corbyn conspiracy.
You, of course know it as this
1 of several
I am asking for a moment if your time and, ask you to read this thread.
I have spent ages recently asking @simonmaginn to partake of a structured debate to show his evidence of the supposed Corbyn conspiracy.
You, of course know it as this
1 of several
On the 30/3/2023 @Never_Again2020 posted this thread in answer, to the questions asked by @simonmaginn with the required evidence and, it was damning.
The truth was out and, it debunks everything thing, he has been claiming as truth, all these years.
The truth was out and, it debunks everything thing, he has been claiming as truth, all these years.
Well I’m here to show you the lengths @simonmaginn went to, to cover up the fact that, they had been answered but, that it was was deliberately and, fraudulently covered up by that account
Can I ask that if you have @Never_Again2020 blocked, that you unblock for just this tweet.
Can I ask that if you have @Never_Again2020 blocked, that you unblock for just this tweet.
Let's take this line by line, shall we?
LN: 'There was this moment after the EHRC report was published when the full shame of what the Labour Party had become during that era was laid bare'
Reality: The EHRC found 2 cases, both now subject to judicial review.
Reality: The EHRC found 2 cases, both now subject to judicial review.
LN: 'Some of us took the decision that it was completely unsustainable and walked away, and some of us took the decision that it was better to be there and try to mitigate what was happening'.
Reality: 'What was happening' was 2 cases, both now subject to judicial review.
Reality: 'What was happening' was 2 cases, both now subject to judicial review.
Our corrupt and stupid media are letting them get away with it, as Starmer must have known they would. Corbyn was disbarred because 'he lost 2019', not because of 'antisemitism'.
They keep saying EHRC report, they keep saying apologise.
via @YouTube
They keep saying EHRC report, they keep saying apologise.
via @YouTube
So we have twin tracks now: the 'official' track, the Starmer NEC motion, which explicitly does not say 'antisemitism', and the unofficial track, which is his MPs going out on telly and lying that it does.
Starmer knows he couldn't make the 'antisemitism' nonsense stand up legally, so he invents a different official excuse, while his MPs lie bare-faced on telly.
It's behaviour so grotesquely dishonest it almost beggars belief.
It's behaviour so grotesquely dishonest it almost beggars belief.
THREAD 1/12 - Simon Maginn (@simonmaginn), the fanatical Corbynite of #ItWasAScam fame, claims to have debunked the #LabourAntisemitism crisis. According to him, it was a conspiracy against Corbyn, so let’s examine his allegations…
2/12 - “Chris Williamson did not say Labour had been too apologetic for antisemitism”.
@simonmaginn is lying; Williamson said: “In my opinion, we’ve given too much ground, we’ve been too apologetic”.
news.sky.com/story/labour-t…
@simonmaginn is lying; Williamson said: “In my opinion, we’ve given too much ground, we’ve been too apologetic”.
news.sky.com/story/labour-t…
3/12 - “Jackie Walker did not say Jews controlled the slave trade”.
Walker wrote on facebook that Jews were the “chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade”. However, she was expelled from Labour for a whole series of offensive, antisemitic outbursts.
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
Walker wrote on facebook that Jews were the “chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade”. However, she was expelled from Labour for a whole series of offensive, antisemitic outbursts.
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
THREAD 1/4 - @simonmaginn, the fanatical Corbynite behind #ItWasAScam, is an antisemitic conspiracy theorist who claims the Chief Rabbi "installed" the Tories and the Board of Deputies are "ridiculous liars" and a "right wing lobby group" that controls the Labour Party.
2/4 - Like all hard-left antisemites, @simonmaginn reimagines the entire Jewish faith so that it conforms to his antisemitic agenda. According to him, the phrase "Jewish community" is antisemitic, as is recognising the indelible link between Judaism and Israel/Zionism.
3/3 - @simonmaginn wants people to debate him, but when any Jewish person tries, they are invariably subjected to a stream of malicious invective before being blocked. Here's someone politely explaining Zionism to him, but Maginn calls him an "obscene little monkey".
This is a complete list of my ten video explainers about the 'Labour antisemitism crisis' fraud.
Links in the thread.
#ItWasAScam
Links in the thread.
#ItWasAScam
NEW
Martin Forde, commissioned by Labour to investigate factionalism and racism in the party speaks publicly for the first time about what he calls the party's hierarchy of racism:
"Anti-black racism, islamophobia, isn't taken as seriously as antisemitism"
Martin Forde, commissioned by Labour to investigate factionalism and racism in the party speaks publicly for the first time about what he calls the party's hierarchy of racism:
"Anti-black racism, islamophobia, isn't taken as seriously as antisemitism"
"In his report published in July 2022 Forde made 165 recommendations; he was surprised to have heard almost nothing from the party since"
"The issue of AS - and the belief that Labour under Jeremy Corbyn harboured anti-Jewish racists - dominated the British media for the 4 yrs of Corbyn's leadership. It contributed to his defeat in the 2019 GE but the British media has shown almost no interest in the Forde Report"
I've done seven of these short videos now.
1. Chris Williamson - 'too apologetic'
2. Jackie Walker - 'slave trade'
3. Corbyn - 'irony'
4. Corbyn - 'wreath'
5. Baddiel's Leaflet
6. The IHRA definition
7. The EHRC report.
Links in the thread.
#ItWasAScam
1. Chris Williamson - 'too apologetic'
2. Jackie Walker - 'slave trade'
3. Corbyn - 'irony'
4. Corbyn - 'wreath'
5. Baddiel's Leaflet
6. The IHRA definition
7. The EHRC report.
Links in the thread.
#ItWasAScam
For a while now I have been (over) thinking about the news both here and elsewhere. From @simonmaginn's #ItWasAScam to Myanmar and the Ukraine, via drag queen story time and the terf wars, one thing has emerged that can truly be described as infesting, riddling, endemic.
That thing is hatred. Primarily hatred, but flavoured with suspicion, fear, ignorance, lies and inhumanity. Every quote, every finger pointing, every illiterate, bigoted, hysterical, racist, Nazi statement, poster, article, tattoo promotes hatred, fosters fear, division,
paranoia, rage. Ignorance is promoted as a virtue, fear and hatred of the 'other' is becoming normalised, violence against the person is being excused, explained, minimised. Institutionalised violence is whitewashed, and any questioning meets a barrage of indignation.
@GeorgeMonbiot Seeing as you are now showing some interest but continue to refuse to join the dots many of us did at the time, maybe we can walk you through & help you in your investigation. 🧵
For instance, this individual is featured in the documentary. Do you know who she is?
For instance, this individual is featured in the documentary. Do you know who she is?
@GeorgeMonbiot How about this individual who has just been elevated to the Lords?
@GeorgeMonbiot Talking of Lords, maybe take a look at these individuals & their role in the AS in the LP 'topic'...
She wasn't 'forced out' at all, Wes, and well you know it, you ridiculous liar.
Did you honestly think you were going to get away with any of that old cobblers on here?
Why would you think that?
#ItWasAScam
Did you honestly think you were going to get away with any of that old cobblers on here?
Why would you think that?
#ItWasAScam
I'm being informed our media are never going to admit to what they did, and so there's no point doing what I'm doing with #ItWasAScam.
I’m ‘wasting my time.’
Some thoughts on that.
I’m ‘wasting my time.’
Some thoughts on that.
Whilst there’s much obvious truth to the first part of it - our media can never and will never admit to lying to us for seven years, how could they possibly? - I would take issue with the second part (‘wasting my time’).
There exist no absolute meanings in life. We must, each of us, find our own meanings. We *create* meanings, we discover them, we find them, we invent them. Meaning is what is meaningful *to us*.
The avalanche of falsehood we've witnessed over the last week about Corbyn and antisemitism is like nothing I've seen before.
It's beyond horrifying that obvious frauds are being peddled as if they were unarguable truths.
It's dystopian and chilling and nightmarish.
#ItWasAScam
It's beyond horrifying that obvious frauds are being peddled as if they were unarguable truths.
It's dystopian and chilling and nightmarish.
#ItWasAScam
It's as if we as a society, as a culture, have rejected reality, as if some sickness has infected us such that we are no longer capable of distinguishing fact from fraud, nor even have the wish to do so. As if we have regressed to some primitive state where myth replaces truth.
It's as if facts which anyone can check with their own eyes and ears have been rejected in favour of hysteria, of screaming, blood-crazed bigotry.
It's as if we have simply gone mad as a society, as a culture, and are now living in a world composed entirely of lurid fantasy.
It's as if we have simply gone mad as a society, as a culture, and are now living in a world composed entirely of lurid fantasy.
Guardian, your whole shitty little fraud has been comprehensively busted.
You make yourself ridiculous continually screaming about *something that never happened*.
You're like a car alarm that keeps going off for no reason.
Annoying, but also unavoidably comedic.
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#ItWasAScam
You make yourself ridiculous continually screaming about *something that never happened*.
You're like a car alarm that keeps going off for no reason.
Annoying, but also unavoidably comedic.
:0)
#ItWasAScam
Hi @soniasodha
No, the EHRC did *not* find the party 'institutionally antisemitic' and you squawking that it did does not, and will never, make it true.
You don't get away with any of that old cobblers on here, and you should know that by now.
Try to *learn*.
#ItWasAScam
No, the EHRC did *not* find the party 'institutionally antisemitic' and you squawking that it did does not, and will never, make it true.
You don't get away with any of that old cobblers on here, and you should know that by now.
Try to *learn*.
#ItWasAScam
I'd put in a complaint, but since Guardian refuses to be regulated *by anyone*, not IPSO and not IMPRESS, it's just an unaccountable lie-making machine that pumps out hateful nonsense.
People on here are wise to it.
You need a new trick.
#ItWasAScam
People on here are wise to it.
You need a new trick.
#ItWasAScam
They don't know how to debate.
They think hate and rage is the same as making a reasoned case.
They think making blank assertions is the same as proving something.
They think the rules of logic are optional.
They think sneering and GIFs are arguments.
They're basically children.
They think hate and rage is the same as making a reasoned case.
They think making blank assertions is the same as proving something.
They think the rules of logic are optional.
They think sneering and GIFs are arguments.
They're basically children.
It's no wonder they believe what they believe.
They don't fact-check anything.
The don't seem to know what fact-checking means.
They just swallow what they're told.
They don't question anything.
They're not even curious about whether their beliefs are true or false.
#ItWasAScam
They don't fact-check anything.
The don't seem to know what fact-checking means.
They just swallow what they're told.
They don't question anything.
They're not even curious about whether their beliefs are true or false.
#ItWasAScam
They're passive vehicles for propaganda.
They're uncritical receptacles for whatever someone wants them to believe.
They're obedient mouthpieces of someone else's agenda.
They're dangerous weapons.
And there's a lot of them.
#ItWasAScam
They're uncritical receptacles for whatever someone wants them to believe.
They're obedient mouthpieces of someone else's agenda.
They're dangerous weapons.
And there's a lot of them.
#ItWasAScam
Corbyn has 'unconscious bias' claims Baddiel, neatly encapsulating the sheer absurdity of the hate campaign against Corbyn.
How does Baddiel know what's in Corbyn's head?
It's almost as if Baddiel has 'unconscious bias' against Corbyn...
It all just gets sillier and sillier.
How does Baddiel know what's in Corbyn's head?
It's almost as if Baddiel has 'unconscious bias' against Corbyn...
It all just gets sillier and sillier.
Baddiel's nonsensical claim of knowledge of Corbyn's 'unconscious thoughts' precisely mimics 'Sideshow Lou' Ellman's 'antisemitic thoughts' hilarity, in which she solemnly 'suspects' she can read Corbyn's mind.
The 'antisemitism crisis' foghorns are reduced to these patently ridiculous formulations because they've dredged decades-worth of Corbyn's public statements and actions and found nothing but consistent and unwavering support for Jewish people and Jewish causes.
Simon Maginn appears to have quite an odd obsession about Jews.
He keeps up a pretence that he is not calling Jews liars… #ItWasAScam
He keeps up a pretence that he is not calling Jews liars… #ItWasAScam
Simon appears to understand that it is a campaign of harassment, but justifies it by claiming he believes it is deserved….
Some people lose themselves down the rabbit hole. Their sense of identity becomes dependent on being against something.
This is just some of his feed from within the last 24 hours, featuring the term “Jews”.
It does not seem like the product of a healthy mind
This is just some of his feed from within the last 24 hours, featuring the term “Jews”.
It does not seem like the product of a healthy mind
I may not be bothering so much with #ItWasAScam from now. The evidence is clear, consistent and damning: Starmer and his bloodless assassins performed one of the most brutal political executions in UK history, and we will all be paying for it for generations.
Our media were willing helpers, dishonest, hateful and speaking with one voice, the bludgeoning voice of the UK state.
No-one who witnessed this and knew what they witnessed will ever trust anything our media tells us again. Those days of innocence are over.
No-one who witnessed this and knew what they witnessed will ever trust anything our media tells us again. Those days of innocence are over.
UK is damaged, perhaps permanently, by it. Democracy is shown to be a comforting sham, and those who so desperately needed the changes Corbyn promised were betrayed. It leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. It leaves millions without hope of any kind.
1/ I fear @jeremycorbyn may end up politically isolated when he's finally expelled from Labour. If you think present allies in Labour will maintain their association, precedent suggests otherwise. Stringing him along until nxt GE makes sense for #Starmer...
2/ It means @jeremycorbyn might be reluctant to formally break with Labour in the hope he's reinstated, which won't happen. The result is that coordinated resistance from socialists won't build until after GE, when Starmer assumes he'll be in power anyway (hmmm)
3/ Not breaking from #Labour makes sense from a local politics perspective in Islington. To win at the nxt GE, @jeremycorbyn will need local Labour support so it could be a mistake to give the impression that he's wilfully deserted them. He'll need their loyalty.
Surely the usual suspects are frantically tweeting their disgust and condemnation of such antisemitic behaviour - let's look at their latest mentions of Gary Neville shall we?
Riley hasn't mentioned him since endorsing throwing money at him several years ago, maybe 8f he'd tweeted support for the then Labour leader she'd now be condemning his actions 🤔
How about #LiarLee Harpin? Surely he's all over such antisemitism! Errrr, nope - although the fact he was so enthused about the "dream team" of Starmer and Neville might explain his silence
Obviously, as adults, we understand that journalists work for businesses which have editorial agendas, and are not free to just say anything they please.
Journalists have careers, mortgages, commitments. They’re not going to jeopardise all that.
Journalists have careers, mortgages, commitments. They’re not going to jeopardise all that.
But they’re now in an unenviable position, the honest ones I mean (if such exotica exist at all). In being required to peddle a narrative that has been wholly discredited, they’re being required to sacrifice their integrity: their self-respect.
Only the most hardened and cynical will be able to do this without some internal disquiet. The rest must, surely, be horribly aware of what they’re doing: denying the evidence, not just of their own eyes and ears, but of the eyes and ears of those who read and hear what they say.
'Far more powerful is Berger’s chilling account... of buckling under the weight of anti-Semitic abuse as an MP in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.'
Come on here and try that old cobblers, @FionaLondonarts. See how far you get. Dare you.
#ItWasAScam
inews.co.uk/culture/arts/j…
Come on here and try that old cobblers, @FionaLondonarts. See how far you get. Dare you.
#ItWasAScam
inews.co.uk/culture/arts/j…
That whole 'Labour antisemitism crisis' narrative beloved of Freedland and Oberman and the rest - and, apparently, you also - has been so comprehensively debunked that clinging ono it starts to look pathological.
Here's some hard, cold evidence of fraud:
Here's some hard, cold evidence of fraud:
There's plenty more where that came from.
Here are ten more, including Freedland's 'irony' smear, which is *right there in the Royal Court blurb*.
Here are ten more, including Freedland's 'irony' smear, which is *right there in the Royal Court blurb*.
I'm with #ItWasAScam because in order to accept the Starmerite narrative on antisemitism you have to believe that antisemitism no longer means "hatred, hostility, or prejudice to Jews for being Jews" but "criticising a particular country or person in a particular way"...
a formulation which is going to trap members of Jewish Voice for Labour, an entirely Jewish group, 35 times more than regular Labour members who are overwhelmingly non-Jewish.
It couldn't be more of a scam if it claimed to be a Nigerian prince wanting to give you...
It couldn't be more of a scam if it claimed to be a Nigerian prince wanting to give you...
a million pounds, a 12-inch penis, and hundreds of hot ladies in your area.
It requires taking at face value that Jews who oppose apartheid and war crimes are Asajews, Fake Jews, Un-Jews, Kapos, and self-haters.
It requires believing Jews must be loyal to a foreign country...
It requires taking at face value that Jews who oppose apartheid and war crimes are Asajews, Fake Jews, Un-Jews, Kapos, and self-haters.
It requires believing Jews must be loyal to a foreign country...
