Thread by @DavidHirsh

Jeremy Corbyn had been planning to make a speech 'to the Jewish community' at a Jewish venue. On Friday evening (!) But it has been cancelled.

The point is not that he wants to talk to Britain's Jews.

The point is: What does he want to say to them?

https://twitter.com/CohenJust/status/1025045176375488512

Did he want to explain why he sat silent at the NEC meeting when Peter Willsman declared that the idea that there is a problem of antisemitism in the party was a story spread by Trump supporting Jews; and that 70 rabbis had articulated their worries but they didn't have evidence?

Or did he want to explain why he had jumped to the defence of Raed Salah, the blood libler, saying that he was 'far from a dangerous man' and expressed his hope that he would be able to take tea with him on the House of Commons terrace?

Or did he want to explain why he had said that his 'friends' in Hamas and Hezbollah were dedicated to peace and political and social justice?

Did he want, again, to pretend that this was not an articulation of support for these murderous organisations? ytcropper.com/cropped/k55b62…

Or did he want to explain why he couldn't recognise a Nazi-style mural when he saw one?

Or did he want to explain why he had made sure that the Chakrabarti Inquiry whitewashed antisemitism in the Labour Party?

engageonline.wordpress.com/2016/07/02/sub…

Or did he want to explain why he had supported 'Deir Yassin Remembered' - a campaign organised by Paul Eissen, a Holocaust denier? telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/2…

Or did he want to say why he had jumped to defence of the Church of England vicar Stephen Sizer, saying that he was a victim of a smear by the Israel lobby? hurryupharry.org/2016/05/02/jer…

Or did he want to explain why he was so angry when Jonathan Freedland tried to help him understand the problem?

"...utterly disgusting subliminal nastiness - whole lot of it, you know? He's not a good guy at all, but he seems kind of obsessed with me."

https://twitter.com/CohenJust/status/1025045176375488512

Or did he want to explain why he never conceded anything that Ken Livingstone said was antisemitic?

ytcropper.com/cropped/te5b63…

Or did he want to explain why he thinks opponents of antisemitism like Ian Austin and Margaret Hodge are aggressors who need to be punished but he is a victim who needs protection?

Or did he want to explain why he had been paid thousands to appear on Press TV, the English language propaganda outfit of the Iranian regime?
And on Press TV did he want to explain why he detected 'the hand of Israel' behind Jihadi terrorism when really Iran finances terrorism?

Did he want to explain why he did not intervene when one of his biggest supporters, Skwarkbox, tweeted against what it called the 'Jewish war on Corbyn'?

Is there a Jewish war against him or is he licensing and tolerating and facilitating a Labour war on Jews?

Or did he want to explain what Chris Williamson MP meant when he said:
"I don't know about you, but we're not prepared to throw a comrade under the bus to appease those who will never be appeased."

Caring about antisemitism is now called 'appeasement'?

Or did he want to explain why he presided over a botched attempt to offer a watered down home made definition of antisemitism when there is a perfectly good framework for defining antisemitism known as the IHRA definition?

blogs.timesofisrael.com/understanding-…

Or did he want to give this speech that I kindly wrote for him?

blogs.timesofisrael.com/hirsh-corbyn-a…

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