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Margaret Hodge @margarethodge said that having the Labour bureaucracy start disciplinary proceedings against her for opposing antisemitism made her reflect on what it was like for her father's generation in 30s Nazi Germany, facing a big powerful bureaucratic state.
Margaret Hodge @margarethodge said that having the Labour bureaucracy start disciplinary proceedings against her for opposing antisemitism made her reflect on what it was like for her father's generation in 30s Nazi Germany, facing a big powerful bureaucratic state.
The Party machine positioned Corbyn as the powerless victim, in need of protection, and Hodge as the powerful aggressor.
Antisemitism always poses itself as the victim of the powerful Jews.
Antisemitism always poses itself as the victim of the powerful Jews.
Labour responded to Hodge:
“The comparison of the Labour Party’s disciplinary process with Nazi Germany is so extreme and disconnected from reality it diminishes the seriousness of the issue of anti-Semitism."
“The comparison of the Labour Party’s disciplinary process with Nazi Germany is so extreme and disconnected from reality it diminishes the seriousness of the issue of anti-Semitism."
IHRA advised that it may be antisemitic to portray Zionists as Nazis.
The Party made a principle of excluding this from its code on antisemitism.
It's OK for Non-Jews to wield the Holocaust as a weapon; but Jews are not allowed to be reminded of the Holocaust by antisemitism.
The Party made a principle of excluding this from its code on antisemitism.
It's OK for Non-Jews to wield the Holocaust as a weapon; but Jews are not allowed to be reminded of the Holocaust by antisemitism.
First, the Labour Party and the Corbyn faction do nothing BUT diminish the seriousness of antisemtism.
But further:
The effect of Jews objecting to the use of the Holocaust as a weapon against them, is that Jews are now prohibited from reflecting on their own experience as victims in the Shoah, and on the resonances of that down the generations.
The effect of Jews objecting to the use of the Holocaust as a weapon against them, is that Jews are now prohibited from reflecting on their own experience as victims in the Shoah, and on the resonances of that down the generations.
